Newton, Yates, Shearn, and Nowitzki have coined the term “intercultural communicative language teaching”, or iCLT, to describe the New Zealand educational curriculum’s promotion of intercultural communicative language teaching which re-conceptualizes the outcome of language learning from strictly communicative (the ability to communicate effectively in the chosen language) to an understanding that “culture is no longer an invisible or incidental presence in language learning but instead is presented as a strand with equal status to that of language”