indonesian efl teachers’ attitudes towards intercultural communicativecompetence as a goal of efl learning

Since the 21st century, english learning has been governed by three lingual paradigms, namelythe theories of english as a lingua franca, world englishes, and english as an international language. thethree theories agree that ideally the goal of english learning, especially for the efl context, is to masterintercultural communicative competence (icc). thus, this study applied a mixed method to investigateindonesian efl teachers’ attitudes towards icc as a goal of efl learning. 50 indonesian efl teacherswere involved as the participants. the quantitative data were collected using questionnaires, and thequalitative data were garnered from interviews. the quantitative data were analyzed using descriptivestatistics, and the qualitative data were analyzed using an interactive model. this study revealed that ingeneral most of indonesian efl teachers had positive attitudes towards icc as a goal of efl learning.their positive attitudes represented their psychological tendencies covering the domains of affection,cognition, and behavior with the percentages of 80%, 85%, and 85% respectively. contextually, theyrepresented their positive attitudes by showing their interests, preferences, opinions, perspectives, views,and efforts that they would make as regards the negotiated entity, namely icc as a goal of efl learning.