Conclusion

In this chapter, I first provide a summary of the findings that were presented and discussed in Chaps. 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , and 8 , based on the survey about intercultural competence and pragmatics that was given to the modern foreign language teachers. I then address the limitations of the present study. The final section of this chapter focuses on the implications of the research project. In this part, I also present a three-tier representation of intercultural competence components based on the language teachers’ responses to the survey and introduce my model of intercultural competence, based on the results of the study.