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Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom

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Aguilar, M.J.C. (2008). Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom. In: Soler, E.A., Jordà, M.S. (eds) Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5639-0_4

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