FOSTERING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE ESP CLASSROOM
Keywords:
English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Intercultural Awareness, Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC), Intercultural Communicator, Intercultural Communicative Situation AnalysisAbstract
This article aims to discuss how raising intercultural awareness of students through diverse disciplines and fostering intercultural communicative skills in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classrooms is a compulsory, challenging and demanding task for ESP practitioners who play a crucial role in equipping students with intercultural communication skills to become interculturally competent communicators in their future global workplace careers. To achieve this goal, this article starts with comprehensively outlining intercultural communicative competence in a global workplace context, including a current review of intercultural elements and their proportion in commercial textbooks for all disciplines of ESP courses. Thereafter, the article highlights inputs for devising and developing intercultural ESP courses by conducting an intercultural communicative situation analysis, embedding intercultural elements into ESP instructional materials, adopting and adapting various intercultural teaching approaches and class activities guided by ESP teachers who take on the facilitator role in the teaching-learning process; utilizing assessment tools for gauging the effectiveness of teaching and evaluating the students’ intercultural communicative competence. It concludes with suggestions and recommendations for ESP instructional material development, pedagogical development and highlighting the role of intercultural communicative competence in terms of students’ employability in the global job market.
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