IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijilea/v40y2026i5p1-25.html

Assessing intercultural communicative competence: a survey-based needs analysis of Thai university students

Author

Listed:
  • Kamolphan Jangarun

Abstract

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) remains underexplored in Thai EFL university contexts. This study investigated the ICC levels of 159 third-year English-major students at a public university with an aim to identify their intercultural communication needs. A survey questionnaire developed based on Byram's (1997, 2021) ICC model, which demonstrated good reliability (α = 0.81, ω = 0.82), was used in data collection. Students had a high level of ICC across all five components; emotional tasks were the most frequently encountered while knowledge-based tasks were the least frequent but among the most difficult. Explaining their own culture's history or politics to a foreigner was the only item rated as a high-priority need. Online gaming and social media were the most common contexts for intercultural contact; linguistic skills were the most urgent training need. These findings highlight the need for teachers to incorporate more specific learning activities to promote language learners' ICC in addition to language skills.

Suggested Citation

  • Kamolphan Jangarun, 2026. "Assessing intercultural communicative competence: a survey-based needs analysis of Thai university students," International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 40(5), pages 1-25.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:40:y:2026:i:5:p:1-25
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=154771
    Download Restriction: Open Access
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:40:y:2026:i:5:p:1-25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=57 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.