The Effect of Chatting with Native Speakers on the Development ofEFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence

Abstract

The work is done through conducting an experimental design carried out through setting a sample of 20 students who have been selected randomly from the department of English at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University Jijel. The experiment concerns a pre-test and a post-est. The research work departs from hypothesizing that chatting with the native speakers of English would enhance intercultural communicative competence of EFL learners if they managed to displace themselves to a medium culture that is, neither their culture nor the target culture. The hypothesis has been formulated on the basis of the question as to whether chatting native speakers of English develops intercultural communicative competence or not