Investigatingthe Role of Idiomatic Expressions in Enhancing StudentsIntercultural Communicative Competence

Abstract

The present research which is made up of two chapters is an attempt to highlight the issue that is dealt with the role of idiomatic expressions in enhancing students’ intercultural communicative competence, since learning the foreign language often requires a foreign culture. In this work we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of idiomatic expressions use in order to improve the students’ intercultural communicative competence. So, it is hypothesized that if EFL students are aware about the idiomatic expressions for using in communication, that would give them the opportunity to enhance their intercultural communicative competence. In order to validate this hypothesis, this study invested quantitative and qualitative methods in data collection; it also comprises two research instruments. Firstly, a questionnaire that has been given to the sample of third year students of nglish at Mila university center, that aims at tracking the students’ understanding and awareness of idiomatic xpressions, and also their interest in English culture. Secondly, an interview that has been dedicated to the eachers of the same university, this one aims at seeing the teachers’ views about the reality of idioms usage throughout the lesson and the students’ interest in English culture, which inevitably emerges through their ultural competencies. The results that are obtained from the data collection showed that the idiomatic xpressions play a major role in improving students’ intercultural communicative competencies. In addition, tudents may acquire e English culture by using idioms to promote their communication. Furthermore, the teachers agree that idiomatic expressions are part of culture, so that they can be a guide to deepening the English culture