Discussion on How to Develop ESL Student Intercultural Competence by Analyzing Australian Texts

Intercultural education that stresses integrating culture learning with language learning becomes more important nowadays. It relates to intercultural language learning( IcLL)and intercultural language teaching( IcLT). Intercultural language learning connects the study of culture to language learning and considers them as integrated and holistic. It enables students to learn the knowledge of the target language, and reflect on the knowledge of their own cultures. Intercultural language teaching aims to develop student multicultural view of the world and develop their intercultural competence through the learning of a foreign language.