Cultural Communicative Competence - the case of Textbooks at Yemeni High School: An Exploratory study

Abstract

It is well known among EFL practitioners that the application of communicative methodology is not easy to be accomplished, but it is a challenge that faces EFL teachers because it demands an understanding of the theoretical nature of the communicative competence. Hence, this research aims at showing the important role of integrating the cultural aspect of English as a core component into the development of learners’ communicative competence. It will also give a thorough overview about this concept and how to achieve it. On the other hand, this paper also will try to determine what type of activities should be introduced to the students. For that, this paper will focus on evaluating one English textbook taught in Yemeni High schools to figure out to what extent the communicative approach is used and how the target language is stressed to boost students’ communicative competence.