KOLB'S EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR EFL STUDENTS TO ENHANCE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

It is critical, despite constraints of test-driven learning culture, that EFL learners acquire intercultural communication competence (ICC), besides linguistic competence, to succeed in the global communication. The current challenge lies in the demands for effective teaching methods to train learners to adapt to diverse cultures. Thus, with the approach towards teaching English as
a Lingua Franca, overcoming cross-culturally communicative obstacles, and promoting ICC in EFL environment, presenters apply Kolb"s (1984) Experiential Learning as an innovative pedagogical perspective to achieve those goals. In this workshop, this demo lesson will engage teachers as participants in the learning process that Kolb"s model stated, with the aim of developing ICC for students. The demo procedure is as follows: 1. Exposure phase. Kolb"s model highlights the essence of Concrete Experience by encouraging learners to transform their personal culture experience to meet objectives in the target communication. Participants are informed of how a concrete experience with intercultural communication shall be created in an English lesson. Therefore, participants can design a day-to-day communicative experience in an optimal way. 2. Participation phase. Kolb (1984) proceeds with Reflective Observation allowing students to mindfully generate behaviour according to different contexts in a non-judgemental way.
Participants know how to construct students" intercultural reflective abilities via activities and enrich their culture-related knowledge and experience. 3. Internalisation phase Presenters will scaffold participants to develop activities that build up students" scientific inquiry and analysis regarding cultural matters. Strategies to help students justify and incentivize their solutions to a problem will be introduced. 4. Dissemination phase. In this phase, students are expected to apply in-class knowledge into practice, aligning linguistic with cross-cultural competencies to interact in any cultural communities. Presenters will offer pedagogical techniques to help transit in-class tasks or projects to real-world intercultural communication. Rubrics in assessing ICC in experiential learning will be shared