Spoken Discourse analysis on pragmatic failure of Intercultural communication in higher education

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: The issue of intercultural awareness in education has become recently debatable between the researchers, authors and Discourse analysts in the last few decades as a result of its importance in all forms of education for a better future. This led to that the year of 2008 to be the European year of intercultural dialogue. Based on the debate between the researchers that acquiring English does not have to be separated from acquiring the culture that it formulates, this paper analyzes the spoken discourses between people belong to different contexts to emphasize on the importance of including intercultural competence in the educational pedagogy and the problems that could occur in its absence.

Elsayed Mahmoud has a Master's Degree from BUID in TESOL. In addition, he holds a Master's Degree in translation from AUC. His PhD is in Pragmatics. He is an English lecturer at CUA. His objective is to enhance the English level of cross-cultural students and provide the researchers, English instructors, and educational decision-makers with suitable techniques to scaffold their cross-cultural students.