A Probe Into the Indicators of Intercultural Communicative Competence in an Efl Self-Study Textbook

Abstract

Textbooks play a vital role for teaching about different culturessince they presentvarious regions, people, behavior, conventions, religions, values and some other cultural elementsof different societies around the world. This study aimedto investigate thecultural content of aself-study textbook which was designed for Open Education Faculty in Turkey. In the study design the descriptive content analysis wasemployed in order to explore which aspects of intercultural communicative competence were addressed. The findings pointed out that themajor part of manyactivities focused oncultural aspects. The study also put forward some practical recommendations on what content should be delivered through a textbook in order to develop intercultural communicative competence.