Challenges and Opportunities of Intercultural Communicative Competence at Tribhuvan University: A Phenomenological Study

This study delves on the issues of intercultural communicative competence specifically challenges and opportunities at Tribhuvan University. I attempted to address the importance of incorporating the components of intercultural communicative competence in school level and university curricula and the challenges and opportunities of incorporating intercultural communicative competence at school and university levels. Hermeneutic phenomenological research design was adopted to address the research questions of this study. Six participants (3 male and 3 female) were selected using purposive non-random sampling procedure as a sample for this study. The lived experiences of the participants were collected using semi-structured interview in this study. The findings of this study were consolidation of harmony and humanity, reducing violence and conflict through intercultural communicative competence, facilitating intercultural communication through English language, necessary of incorporating interculture communicative competence in school and university levels’ curricula, and lack of workshop, training and materials in intercultural communicative competence at Tribhuvan University. It is concluded that knowledge and awareness of intercultural communicative competence should be disseminated to all of teachers and students from school to university levels in Nepal through workshop, training and prescribing components of intercultural communicative components.