THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

Learning foreign languages allows everyone to be introduced the new language
not only in grammatical, syntactical or lexical point of view but also cares acquiring
people's cultural awareness regarding this language. It has been highly recognized that
culture and language is used as a main medium through which culture is expressed. Thus,
the development of learners' intercultural communication in teaching target language can
help them to avoid different cultural misunderstandings and leads them to be more critical
thinker. Taking all this into consideration, the aim of this article has been to provide
necessary information for the foreign language teachers and to show the role of intercultural
communication during teaching and learning processes