Abstract:
Cultural context, communicative competence, and intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes were not conceptualized until more recently as having anything to do with language learning. More recently, it has been recognized that cultural context is more complex than this and that language learners need to be able to communicate in diverse contexts with diverse interlocutors, something that requires more generalized intercultural knowledge, attitudes, and skills, which can be applied to new situations as they are encountered.
