Teaching Cultural Differences through Korean Canadians: Teaching Material Development for English as a Foreign Language Classes

Abstract

Introduction: Students of English as a foreign language must possess intercultural communicative skills in order to be able to interpret and discuss the cultural diversity that surrounds them when they use English for communicational purposes. This paper claims, and is based on the conviction, that the development of these skills takes place primarily through teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in most educational contexts. This approach is facilitated by the fact that the English language functions as the most widely used foreign language in the context of culture teaching.

Keywords

• intercultural communication
• intercultural communicative skills
• intercultural communicative competence model
• canada
• korean canadians