Abstract
The key goal in foreign language teaching is intercultural communication as fusion of intercultural understanding and communication. The key goal can be divided into several subgoals for convenience sake. The cultural aspects of language study should be interwoven with other phases from the beginning stage of learning English. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of intercultural understanding and vocabulary learning in intercultural settings. The cultural aspect is taken into account in the denotative meaning of words as well as in the connotative meaning. To attain the main goals of vocabulary learning three developmental strategies are shown : semantization, internalization, and exploitation.
