EFL Learner’s Intercultural Awareness in Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions in Speaking Classes. An Exploratory Study on 3rd Year Students in the Department of English at MMUTO.
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Date
2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This current work explores the students’ intercultural awareness through interpreting idioms. It seeks to discover whether EFL learners at MMUTO are acquainted with the target language culture, apprehensive with meanings of idioms, and also whether it is essential to integrate cultural insights such as “idioms” to enhance the student’s intercultural communicative competence. The central aim of this study is to examine how intercultural awareness affects the understanding of idiomatic expressions in speaking classes among third-year English department students at MMUTO. It also seeks to highlight the significance of intercultural awareness in developing intercultural communicative competence. To reach these objectives, the sample of this study includes 42 students and 5 teachers, to reach the aforementioned objectives, we relied on a mixed method research, which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. To collect data, two questionnaires were administered: one questionnaire for students and another one for teachers. Numerical data is executed through statistical analysis by using the rule of three. The open-ended questions were analyzed qualitatively. The interpretation of the findings as well as its clarification, follows the qualitative content analysis (QCA) adopting the intercultural communicative competence model developed by Byram (1997). The results show that learners with intercultural awareness can understand better the TC and interpret idiomatic expressions.
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63p. ; Ill. en coul. : 30cm(+Rom)
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EFL, English culture, Idioms, ICC, Intercultural Awareness
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Didactics of Foreign languages