“…Such terms refer to the ability to step beyond one's own culture and function appropriately with speakers from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds (Huang, 2021) considering dimensions of attitudes, curiosity, openness, affection, motivation, and empathy toward one's own and other cultures (Gong et al, 2022). Rossiter and Bale (2023) state that interculturally competent individuals are those who can nurture their cultural awareness and sociolinguistic awareness and those who can easily listen, observe, evaluate, analyze, and interpret things. In fact, ICC has been influenced by emerging technologies via using telecollaboration (Eren, 2023;Gutiérrez-Santiuste & Ritacco-Real, 2023).…”