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Since the advent of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) (Byram 1997), it has become the foundation of contemporary language teaching and learning (Crozet 1998; Lee 2012; Zhang 2007). This paper delves into some properties of ICC and examines whether the reading of novels in class enhances their ICC and affects Chinese EFL learners' attitudes toward the culture of any other varieties of English via the conduct of a survey of 135 non-English major college students after 16 weeks' instruction. The subjects were asked to answer questions on a 5-Likert scale regarding the importance of intercultural communication, their attitudes toward intercultural study in class, the positive role of reading novels, and 4 competences of ICC. The results of the survey reveal that explicit instruction in novel reading raises their approval rates by 48.5%, 49.6%, and 53.35%, respectively in the first 3 areas, and enhances the 4 competences by the overall mean score increase of 1.52 on the 5-Likert scale. It follows that explicit instruction of the target language culture might facilitate the rise of the overall ICC level of Chinese EFL learners.
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의식 고양, 중요 의식, 문화간 소통능력, 명시적 교수, 소설 읽기
