Defining intercultural communicative competence from international perspective

Abstract

The article tackles the intercultural dimension in the language teaching process, focusing on teaching English. It also analyzes intercultural communicative competence from an international perspective, comparing American, European and Asian cultures. The aim of the paper is to characterize the main notions (the notion of self in society; the notion of language and communication and the notion of education and development), which are the main pillars in defining and developing the intercultural communicative competence, and to specify their impact in a non-European context.