Intercultural communicative competence: A vital skill in the context of ASEAN economic community

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ASEAN countries are about join in a single market and production base known as ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015, which will enhance freer flows of goods, services, investment, capital, and people. This will enable the process of regional integration in which people from diverse cultures will live, meet, and work together. Accordingly, culture clash and shock and communication breakdown would seem to be unavoidable if people in ASEAN community are not well prepared in terms of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in order to effectively and appropriately function in multicultural situations. Therefore, this paper discusses the reasons why ICC is a must-to-have in AEC, and gives some implications to promote ICC among people in terms of English language education.

 

Keywords: English language (EL), ASEAN Economic Community (ACE), Intercultural communicative competence (ICC).

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Intercultural communicative competence: A vital skill in the context of ASEAN economic community. (2015). Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 5(1), 15–22. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v5i0.37
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