Developing intercultural competence through a project approach

Abstract

The present study investigates how a project approach may facilitate the development of intercultural competence in foreign language classrooms and how teachers can apply to the approach in the classroom is explored by using a questionnaire survey. Analysis of the study makes it clear that the project approach can be best to teach culture in foreign language classrooms motivating students to study target culture in an interesting context. Besides, this article argues that although there is enough evidence proving the project approach can be effective with the use of real context in the target country, it is effective and potential to teach culture implementing the project approach even in a home country.