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text-type; (e) Researching how a key language feature used in this text-type is
used in other text-types.

7. Intercultural Language Learning
a. Definition of Interculture

The interculture here is involving two cultures working together.

Intercultures refer to more than one culture interacting each other. Intercultural
language learning tends to explain the language learning process in local culture

in which belongs to language learners and in target culture belonging to foreign
language (CEFR, 2001). The cultural knowledge of two cultures faces to make

mutual understanding both spoken and written language. The competency in using
intercultural knowledge for communication is called intercultural competence.

The aim of interculture-based language learning is to achieve the intercultural

competence.
Corbet (2003: 2) states that intercultural language learning comes to a

deeper understanding of how the target language is used to achieve the explicit

and implicit cultural goals of the foreign language community, the language
learners should be prompted to reflect on the ways in which their own language

and community functions. The intercultural learner ultimately serves as a mediator
between different social groups that use different languages and language

varieties.
The ultimate goal of an intercultural approach to language education is not

so much native speaker competence but rather an ―intercultural communicative

competence‖. Intercultural communicative competence includes the ability to
understand the language and behavior of the target community, and explain it to

members of the ‗home‘ community and vice versa. In other words, an intercultural
approach trains learners to be ‗diplomats‘, able to view different cultures from a

perspective of informed understanding.
b. Intercultural Competences

Interculture occurs when members of two or more different cultural groups

(of whatever size, at whatever level) interact or influence one another in some
fashion, whether in person or through various mediated forms (UNESCO, 2013:

11). Thus, competence refers to having sufficient skill, ability, knowledge, or

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