The Impact of the Mother Culture Interference on EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence

Abstract

The present study aims at investigating the impact of the mother culture interference on EFL learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence, since EFL learners’ main goal is to master the foreign language in order to be able to communicate effectively. The importance is given to decreasing the mother culture interference, as well as highlighting the cultural awareness and the significance of teaching the target culture inside the EFL classes in order to develop the learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence. It hypothesizes that If EFL learners are aware of the importance of the target culture and if they are exposed to it adequately, they would develop an effective Intercultural Communicative Competence. To test this hypothesis, two questionnaires were administered to teachers and learners to gather the necessary data. After analyzing the collected data and the results obtained, we arrived to confirm the hypothesis of this research and we attempted to give some pedagogical recommendations that would eventually help EFL learners to overcome the mother culture interference while communicating with english native speakers for a successful communication through the foreign language.