Intercultural competence and foreign language teachers: a case study of three teachers in a Turkish high school

The aim of this study is to examine the language teachers of English who are positively disposed to intercultural competence teaching. The study was designed as a collective case study and the participants of the study were three language teachers of English who work at a high school in Erdemli, Mersin. As data collection instruments, the Foreign Language and Intercultural Competence teacher questionnaire, interviews, narrations, and a focus group interview were conducted. In order to analyze data, descriptive technique for the questionnaire; a priori coding technique for the interviews, narrations, and the focus group interview were used. As a conclusion of the study, it was seen that in spite of their clear positive disposition towards intercultural competence teaching, these three teachers are not quite able to conceptualize and integrate it into their teaching practices.