Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence via television platform

Abstract

Learning a foreign language entails learning the culture where it is spoken. Television has long been used in English Language Teaching (ELT) and been proved effective in improving learners’ linguistic competence. However, whether it can be used to improve learners’ ICC is less researched. This thesis attempts to study the effectiveness of television shows as a method of teaching culture and developing intercultural communicative competence in EFL classrooms.