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The objective of this paper is, on the one hand, to present and highlight the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the use of academic English within a scientific environment and, on the other, to provide insights into understanding the disadvantage that non-native English-speaking scholars experience in international publishing. This paper begins by highlighting the importance of developing awareness of intercultural competency and sensitivity in academic writing and concludes by pointing out the need for increased understanding and tolerance on behalf of the editors and peer-reviewers of international academic journals. It emphasizes the need to promote acceptability and intelligibility, rather than mere conformity to the norms of the standard language, and it humbly aims at shifting long-established perceptions in the academic community.

ResumenEl estudio de la segunda lengua extranjera para traductores (Lengua C) debería dar mayor importancia a la dimensión sociocultural y, sobre todo, a la perspectiva intercultural. En el presente trabajo, ofrecemos algunas reflexiones sobre la idea de que la competencia sociocultural es tan importante en la enseñanza de una segunda lengua extranjera como la lengua en sí misma, porque lengua y cultura son dos caras de una misma realidad. La lengua es el vivo y siempre cambiante reflejo de la historia y el saber del pueblo que la utiliza, y en ella cristaliza su experiencia cultural y archiva todas sus vivencias. Palabras clave: cultura, didáctica de lenguas, enseñanza, traducción. AbstRActThe study of a second foreign language in Translation Faculties in Spain should give more importance to the socio-cultural dimension of language teaching/learning and especially to the intercultural perspective. This paper offers some reflections on the idea that the socio-cultural competence is as important in teaching a second foreign language as in the mother tongue, since language and culture are undividable realities. Language is the true and ever changing reflection of the history and knowledge of the people that use it and it is precisely where their cultural experience and memories remain crystallised.

This paper aims to assess the relationships between tourists’ negative evaluation of key management areas in the cultural city, their overall satisfaction and future intentions. More specifically, this paper proposes a covariance-based structural equations model (CB-SEM) to assess the influence of tourists’ dissatisfaction caused by failures in tourist and cultural services, hygiene and infrastructure on their overall satisfaction with the cultural trip and their intentions to repeat it. Using data collected from 1500 tourists visiting Old Havana on a cultural trip, this paper confirms that a negative opinion on the management of hygiene, cleanliness and crowding is dominant in explaining cultural tourists’ lower levels of satisfaction. In addition, this was found to be the only factor with a negative impact on tourists’ intentions to revisit the city in the future. The results are useful for helping managers of cultural destinations to distinguish the areas that are most relevant in their attempt to promote satisfaction and loyalty in the context of cultural tourism.