Arab Educational Information Network

Culture channels the way we perceive the world while language embodies its most relevant vehicle. Possessing knowledge, beliefs, behaviours and attitudes towards various cultures paved the way to the promotion of an intercultural competence where every participant is actually the product of a specific culture with a specific mode of communication. Accordingly, the aim behind this paper is to introduce the concept of intercultural literacy in foreign language teaching as well as reflections into significant put into practice pedagogical strategies to teaching foreign languages through intercultural literacy to enhance students’ linguistic and intercultural comprehension. The paper intends to raise teachers’ awareness of the need to develop their intercultural literacy in teaching a foreign language and gives suggestions of possible choices and materials to meet the contexts of the EFL classroom as far as intercultural literacy is concerned. (Published abstract)