The Relationship between Intercultural Communicative Competence and the Reading Comprehension Ability of Iranian University Students

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) refers to the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately when encountering people of other languages and cultures. Today ICC is a vital ability for every person who wants to communicate with others and learn new sciences. So, the present study was an attempt to examine the relationship between ICC and the reading comprehension ability of Iranian university students. To achieve the goal of the study, after the homogenization process, 77 male and female learners were selected as participants. They were asked to answer an ICC questionnaire and to take a reading comprehension test consisting of texts with background knowledge from the English (L2) culture. The correlation coefficient between the scores on the questionnaire and the reading comprehension test revealed significant relationships between learners’ ICC and their L2 reading comprehension ability

کلیدواژه ها:

Background knowledge ، intercultural communicative competence ، reading comprehension ، second language learning