Iraqi EFL Pre-Service Teachers' Awareness of Intercultural Communicative Competence

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Abstract The significance of intercultural competence is being progressively perceived by educators . Ways are being sought to assess whether or not pre-service teachers have really gained intercultural communicative Competence . The current study is an attempt to assess Iraqi Pre-Service Teachers' Awareness of Intercultural Communicative Competence , thus the study aims at : 1.Assessing Iraqi EFL pre-service teachers' awareness of intercultural communicative competence in English . The hypotheses has been tested as follow: 1.Iraqi EFL pre-service teachers' are not aware of intercultural communicative competence in English. The random sample of the current study consists of (148) students from both sexes from the four academic stages of the English Department at College of Education for Humanities / University of Diyala, for the academic year (2017-2018) .In order to achieve the aims of this study and to assess its hypotheses , a questionnaire has been used for data gathering and it covers(31) items . At the beginning of the questionnaire, teachers are asked to respond to all questions concerning. The first section contains the demographic questions .