Vol. 5 Issue 26 – ‘Fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence’, Arizona, January 23-26, 2014

With greater awareness of the importance of intercultural competence in enabling learners to communicate effectively in an increasingly interconnected world, and with global travel and instant international communications available to a growing number of people, one of the primary goals of language teaching is to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in the classroom and beyond.