Negotiating Intercultural Awareness and Informal Digital Language Learning
Journal: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
Intercultural awareness (ICA) has long been a central concern in second language (L2) learning and teaching, given the multilingual and intercultural reality of language use. ICA is also the foundation for interculturally competent individuals (Chen & Starosta, 1998). Research in intercultural communication has consistently identified ICA as a foundational component of intercultural communicative competence (Baker,…