Exploring Pre-Service and Novice EFL Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity

Semin KAZAZOĞLU, (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiye)
Esra ECE (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiye)
Novitas-Royal
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Yıl: 2021 Cilt: 15 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 76 - 89 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 21-05-2021

Exploring Pre-Service and Novice EFL Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity

Öz:
One of the advantages of teaching culture is to display different cultural frames to developlanguage awareness and pragmatic usage. Culture is a phenomenon to be searched deeply in terms ofEnglish language teaching on the grounds of a scarce number of studies on it. Accordingly, thisstudy examines pre-service and novice EFL teachers’ perception of teaching “culture” and itsinstructional effect on multicultural settings. Accordingly, a 24-item intercultural sensitivityquestionnaire developed by Chen and Starosta (2000) was used. Besides, interview and focus groupsessions were carried out for the triangulation of the data. In the findings, it is concluded thatparticipants who know more than two languages had more confidence in intercultural interaction.Besides, it was put forward that experience has a positive role in cultivating intercultural sensitivity. Itwas also recognized that novice English teachers are highly motivated to integrate interculturalelements into language teaching. Additionally, some suggestions, including culture-specific activities,informative multicultural materials, and methods have been provided.
Anahtar Kelime:

Aday ve Mesleğe Yeni Başlayan İngilizce Öğretmenlerinin Kültürlerarası Duyarlılıklarının İncelenmesi

Öz:
Kültür öğretiminin avantajlarından biri, dil farkındalığını ve pragmatik kullanımı geliştirmek için farklı kültürel bileşenler sunmasıdır. Kültür, az sayıda çalışma nedeniyle İngilizce’nin öğretimi açısından derinlemesine araştırılması gereken bir olgudur. Buna göre, bu çalışma EFL öğretmenlerinin “kültür” öğretimi algısını ve çok kültürlü ortamlar üzerindeki öğretim etkisini incelemektedir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, Chen ve Starosta (2000) tarafından geliştirilen yirmi dört maddelik “Kültürlerarası Duyarlılık Anketi” kullanılmıştır. Ayrıca, verilerin detaylı incelenmesi için görüşme ve odak grup oturumları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bulgularda; ikiden fazla dil bilen katılımcıların, kültürlerarası etkileşim konusunda daha fazla özgüven duydukları sonucuna varılmıştır. Ayrıca, mesleğe yeni başlayan İngilizce öğretmenlerinin, dil öğretimini birleştirerek kültürlerarası unsurları entegre etme konusunda oldukça motive oldukları gözlemlenmiştir. Bunun yanı sıra, kültüre özgü etkinlikler, bilgilendirici çok kültürlü materyaller ve yöntemler de dahil olmak üzere bazı öneriler sunulmuştur.
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