Abstract:
The notable shift of focus in the field of education in more recent years fostered the idea of teaching a foreign language communicatively, that is, acquiring linguistic competence and communicative skills. Our fundamental interest in this article is sociocultural competence, referring to the speaker’s knowledge of how to convey messages within social and cultural context including a better understanding of the conventions of language usage in a society. The article deals with the necessity and value of implementation of teaching the sociocultural competence to students of the upper-intermediate level of English language proficiency and its integration into EFL classes in the context of culture, its values and society for successful communication based upon sociocultural knowledge.
