Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences

Product Description
This book presents a concise critical overview of the literature on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and offers insights into research on this concept. As a novel contribution to the field, the book frames ICC in relation to other learner variables, such as motivation, willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived communication competence. Based on empirical data, the study proposes and tests a model of English majors ICC interacting with individual differences related to L2 communication. The findings highlight that students beliefs about their own performance, their apprehension from communication situations and their language learning motivation were successfully integrated into a new model of intercultural communicative competence as understood in an interactional EFL context.
About the Author
Judit Dombi is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pécs, Hungary, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics. Her fields of interest include theoretical and applied aspects of intercultural communication and pragmatics in intercultural and ELF contexts. Her recent research has focused on intercultural communicative competence, the communicative functions of directness and indirectness in interaction, and communication asymmetries.