Intercultural Sensitivity

Since societies develop mutual aims and different societies perpetuate developing long-term economic, social and cultural relationships with other cultural groups and the global instability continues hitting the world, developing intercultural sensitivity becomes more and more important at all level...

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Published inJournal of intercultural communication no. 46; p. 1
Main Author Altan, Mustafa Zülküf
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Göteborg Immigrant Institute 01.03.2018
Subjects
College students
Communicative competence
Cultural groups
Cultural relations
Culture
Education
English as a second language instruction
English language
Ethnocentrism
Globalization
Intercultural communication
Intercultural competence
Intercultural sensitivity
Language
Language teachers
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Nobel prizes
Preservice training
Researchers
Second language learning
Society
Stereotypes
Student teachers
Teachers
Teaching
Turkish language
Values
Turkey
United States > US
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Summary:Since societies develop mutual aims and different societies perpetuate developing long-term economic, social and cultural relationships with other cultural groups and the global instability continues hitting the world, developing intercultural sensitivity becomes more and more important at all levels of the education, especially for those who will teach other languages. One of the major aspects of intercultural communication competence is intercultural sensitivity which has been gaining increasing attention in different disciplines. This paper focuses on the importance of intercultural sensitivity and shares the results of a study on the intercultural sensitivity of Turkish ELT major (English Language Teaching) pre-service teachers. For this purpose, 70 senior ELT major pre-service teachers completed an instrument comprising 5 factors with 24 items developed by Chen and Starosta (2000) for measuring intercultural sensitivity.
ISSN:1404-1634