| Summary: | Foreign language education needs to prepare learners to become intercultural speakers who can establish an intercultural dialogue with those whose languages are different from their own. Against this background, we present a study based on the diagnosis of the reciprocal images of Portuguese and Turkish university students learning each other’s language. Our aim is to show how the students’ reciprocal images relate to their attitudes towards their counterpart’s language, culture, and people, and, consequently, to intercultural communication itself. On this basis, we identify the existing gaps regarding an intercultural approach to foreign language education and propose a set of educational strategies aiming at the development of the students’ intercultural competence.
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