Intercultural Communicative Competence
- FLAD
- Foreign Language Assessment Directory
- Understanding Assessment Tutorial
- Heritage Language Assessment Module
- Post-Secondary World Language Assessment Module
- Introduction
- Proficiency
- Placement Testing
- Assessment Plans
- Assessment Plans: The Why
- Assessment Plans: The How
- Aligning Assessment with Instruction
- Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Designing Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Scoring Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Using Integrated Performance Assessments
- Designing Integrated Performance Assessments
- Intercultural Communicative Competence
- Assessing Intercultural Communication
- Assessing Cultures
- Assessment and Program Articulation
- Summary of Best Practices
- Show What You Know!
- Putting It All Together
- Resources
What is intercultural communicative competence?
Many language programs and postsecondary institutions share the goal of graduating students who are “interculturally competent.” This competence can be defined as the ability to use effective and appropriate behavior in intercultural situations, and more specifically, behavior that is appropriate to specific contexts and different identities and roles of speakers. You may have target learning outcomes for intercultural communication that include using knowledge of target language cultures and appropriate non-verbal communicative features to make interactions familiar, comprehensible, inoffensive, and aware of cultural diversity and bias.