2018
DOI: 10.5430/ijhe.v7n6p198
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Effects of an Intercultural Communication Course in Developing Intercultural Sensitivity

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to see whether intercultural communication, an elective course, taught through case analyses in the department of English language teaching is effective on the level of students’ intercultural sensitivity. For this purpose, we conducted the study based on the explanatory sequential design. The participants were senior students (teacher candidates) in English Language teaching department in Pamukkale University in Turkey. The participants were in two elective courses: intercultural c… Show more

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“…Since intercultural sensitivity is an important component of intercultural communication competence (Chen & Starosta, 1996, 2000Tamam, 2010), it is important to improve interactants' intercultural communication sensitivity (Dong et al, 2008;Liu & Liu, 2015;Zhou & Peng, 2007). An effective strategy is intercultural training, as proved in the current literature (Altshuler et al, 2003;Mahoney & Schamber, 2004;Tuncel & Paker, 2018;Zhou & Peng, 2007). This can be done by offering orientations, seminars and/or courses on cultural differences and intercultural sensitivity and providing interactants with opportunities to practically communicate with people from the target culture.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Since intercultural sensitivity is an important component of intercultural communication competence (Chen & Starosta, 1996, 2000Tamam, 2010), it is important to improve interactants' intercultural communication sensitivity (Dong et al, 2008;Liu & Liu, 2015;Zhou & Peng, 2007). An effective strategy is intercultural training, as proved in the current literature (Altshuler et al, 2003;Mahoney & Schamber, 2004;Tuncel & Paker, 2018;Zhou & Peng, 2007). This can be done by offering orientations, seminars and/or courses on cultural differences and intercultural sensitivity and providing interactants with opportunities to practically communicate with people from the target culture.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Some of the ideas in this study are almost compatible with Atay, Kurt, Camlibel, Ersin & Kaslioglu (2009) in terms of presenting 'to give a support to the students in order to understand their own culture better'. In line with this, partly similar researches were performed with senior students (English teacher candidates) of some universities by Tuncel & Paker (2018) and Altan (2018) in order to define the intercultural sensitivity levels of the participants. The findings of Tuncel & Paker (2018) are partially incompatible with the idea in this research as they demonstrated that intercultural sensitivity level of the participants is high, and partially compatible with the idea in this research as they referred that educational programs should contain an interdisciplinary approach in order to have students gain more intercultural communication competence and intercultural sensitivity.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It will also be misleading to try to explain the development of intercultural sensitiveness, depending on just one factor, such as the educational program because many factors including the previous experiences affecting the development of cultures of cultures, the interaction with different cultures, prejudices, environment and many factors can be taken into consideration. In the study conducted by Tuncel and Paker (2018), it was concluded that senior English pre-service teachers had high intercultural sensitivity perception.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the findings also show that the duration of the intercultural education (IE) course is not sufficient to achieve all goals of education. In the study conducted by Tuncel and Paker (2018), it was concluded that senior English pre-service teachers had high intercultural sensitivity perception and that intercultural communication course was effective in developing intercultural sensitivity of English teacher candidates.…”
Section: Interculturality In Language Teaching and Teacher Trainingmentioning
confidence: 99%