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The task-based approach, widely accepted after 2000s and systematically explained by “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages” (CEFR), considers a foreign language user a social actor in a society. In this approach, it is claimed that an individual communicates with the members of different cultural communities not only by spoken language but also by his behaviors in that community. The task-based approach also aims to give a student tolerance against the cultural differences and awareness of his cultural identity. In order to reach this target, students have to be provided by some basic concepts such as identity, prejudice, cliche, discrimination, ethnocentrism and interculturality that compose the intercultural communication approach. This study aims to find out the opinions of fourth grade students in French Language Teaching Programme on the basic concepts of this approach. In this research, which was designed as case study, the data were collected by the interview forms including open-ended questions in order to get detailed ideas of the participants on the above mentioned concepts. It is preferred to have purposeful sampling as a choosing method for the current case study. Consent forms proving this study was based upon volunteering were given to the participants and they were informed about the aim and the content of the study. The data were analysed by the content analysis method and the results were discussed with reference to foreign language teaching.

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