Abstract
The current paper presents a theoretical review of the phenomena of intercultural communication. It tries to raise intercultural awareness among English language teachers. The paper divided into four chapters: intercultural communication and English language teaching, the practice of intercultural communication in the classroom, intercultural communication awareness and language teacher education programmes. It also provides a discussion and conclusion to review the research area. The discussion showed that researchers as well as teachers have conducted and suggested many intercultural communication activities to apply with language learners in several studies. They found that learners use some pragmatic strategies to communicate with other interlocutors.