{"title":"UNLOCKING ESL AND EFL LEARNERS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: THE USE OF QUESTIONING SKILLS AND FEEDBACK STRATEGIES","authors":"Peicheng Ina Wei","doi":"10.54513/joell.2023.10210","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and its significance in language learning. The paper provides an overview of effective strategies for enhancing students' ICC in classroom discourse, such as questioning skills and oral corrective feedback (OCF). By employing these techniques, teachers can enhance students' critical thinking and language proficiency, ultimately equipping them with the skills needed to navigate intercultural communication successfully. However, the article notes that the use of OCF requires careful consideration and execution in the context of classroom discourse. Overall, this article provides a comprehensive guide for language teachers to improve their students' ICC and to prepare them for successful communication in diverse cultural settings. Teachers and educators ought to pay attention to social and contextual aspects of language use, learners' language proficiency, individual differences, and learning context when giving feedback to students.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2023.10210","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article focuses on the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and its significance in language learning. The paper provides an overview of effective strategies for enhancing students' ICC in classroom discourse, such as questioning skills and oral corrective feedback (OCF). By employing these techniques, teachers can enhance students' critical thinking and language proficiency, ultimately equipping them with the skills needed to navigate intercultural communication successfully. However, the article notes that the use of OCF requires careful consideration and execution in the context of classroom discourse. Overall, this article provides a comprehensive guide for language teachers to improve their students' ICC and to prepare them for successful communication in diverse cultural settings. Teachers and educators ought to pay attention to social and contextual aspects of language use, learners' language proficiency, individual differences, and learning context when giving feedback to students.
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Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.