Over the past years, there has been a growing interest in intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in English language education. However, not all English language educators in the Vietnamese context and other similar contexts are well aware of intercultural language teaching since there lacks instructional design models to integrate intercultural content into English language classes. This project, therefore, aims to test the effectiveness of a developed intercultural communicative language teaching (ICLT) model. It involved forty-seven EFL learners learning General English at a foreign language center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Three research instruments, namely language test, intercultural competence test and semi-structured group interview were employed to garner data. The findings revealed that after a thirteen week training course, EFL learners’ language competence and intercultural competence had similar patterns of improvement. This project, thus, implies that the ICLT model is effective in facilitating EFL learners’ ICC development, and it can be applied in other similar EFL contexts.

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跨文化语言交际教学模式对英语学习者的有效性

在过去的几年中，人们对英语教育中的跨文化交际能力（ICC）越来越感兴趣。但是，由于缺乏将跨文化内容整合到英语课程中的教学设计模型，因此在越南语境和其他类似环境中，并不是所有的英语教育者都对跨文化语言教学非常了解。因此，该项目旨在测试发达的跨文化交际语言教学（ICLT）模型的有效性。共有47名EFL学习者在越南胡志明市的外语中心学习通用英语。语言测试，跨文化能力测试和半结构化小组访谈这三种研究工具被用来收集数据。调查结果表明，经过13周的培训，EFL学习者的语言能力和跨文化能力具有相似的提高模式。因此，该项目意味着ICLT模型可以有效地促进EFL学习者的ICC开发，并且可以在其他类似的EFL环境中应用。