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Developing intercultural awareness in language teaching: Insights from EFL lecturers in Turkey

Dil öğretiminde kültürlerarası farkındalığın geliştirilmesi: Türkiye'deki İngilizce öğretim görevlilerinin anlayışları

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1436–1458
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2022-11-05
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The quantitative results show that although lecturers are awareof the importance of integrating both home and target culture into the classes, and developing learners’interactional skills, intercultural communicative competence and intercultural sensitivity, they are not sure abouthow to put intercultural learning into practice for EFL classroom tasks and activities.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This study aims to reveal EFL lecturers’ opinions about intercultural education and classroom practices includingteaching materials, classroom activities, assessment, and teachers’ role for developing intercultural awareness.
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Key Findings & Data:This study, combining bothquantitative and qualitative research, was designed according to the mixed method procedure and followed thesequential explanatory strategy.
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Conclusion & Impact:The quantitative results show that although lecturers are awareof the importance of integrating both home and target culture into the classes, and developing learners’interactional skills, intercultural communicative competence and intercultural sensitivity, they are not sure abouthow to put intercultural learning into practice for EFL classroom tasks and activities.
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Abstract

This study aims to reveal EFL lecturers’ opinions about intercultural education and classroom practices includingteaching materials, classroom activities, assessment, and teachers’ role for developing intercultural awareness. Togain insights about the current situation in EFL classrooms at a university level in Turkey, lecturers’ opinions andclassroom practices have been examined through a questionnaire and an interview. This study, combining bothquantitative and qualitative research, was designed according to the mixed method procedure and followed thesequential explanatory strategy. The study covered 172 EFL lecturers from preparatory schools of six stateuniversities, and 12 EFL lecturers selected randomly joined the interview voluntarily. The participating institutionswere Atatürk University, Cumhuriyet University, Erciyes University, Hacı Bektaş Veli University, KarabükUniversity, and Karadeniz Technical University. The quantitative results show that although lecturers are awareof the importance of integrating both home and target culture into the classes, and developing learners’interactional skills, intercultural communicative competence and intercultural sensitivity, they are not sure abouthow to put intercultural learning into practice for EFL classroom tasks and activities. Accordingly, the results ofthe interview present the problems that prevent teaching about intercultural awareness and reveal that lecturersneed guidance and training to practice confidently intercultural competence teaching in the classroom, especiallyin terms of assessment methods as they do not have a clear idea about the assessment and evaluation methods toapply with intercultural competence.

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Bu çalışma, İngilizce öğretim görevlilerinin kültürlerarası eğitim ve öğretim materyalleri, sınıf içi etkinlikler, değerlendirme ve öğretmenlerin kültürlerarası farkındalık geliştirmedeki rolünü içeren sınıf uygulamaları hakkındaki görüşlerini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye'deki üniversite düzeyinde EFL sınıflarındaki mevcut durum hakkında bilgi edinmek için, öğretim görevlilerinin görüş ve sınıf uygulamaları bir anket ve mülakat ile incelenmiştir. Hem nicel hem de nitel araştırmayı birleştiren bu çalışma, karma yöntem prosedürüne göre tasarlanmış ve sıralı açıklayıcı stratejiyi izlemiştir. Çalışma, altı devlet üniversitesinin hazırlık okullarından 172 İngilizce öğretim görevlisini kapsamaktadır. Rastgele seçilen 12 öğretim görevlisi gönüllü olarak görüşmeye katılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan kurumlar; Atatürk Üniversitesi, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Erciyes Üniversitesi, Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi, Karabük Üniversitesi ve Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi'dir. Nicel sonuçlar, öğretim görevlilerinin hem kendi kültürünü hem de hedef kültürü sınıflara entegre etmenin ve öğrencilerin iletişimsel becerilerini, kültürlerarası iletişimsel yetkinliğini ve kültürlerarası duyarlılığını geliştirmenin öneminin farkında olmalarına rağmen, kültürler arası öğrenmenin nasıl uygulanacağı konusunda yeterli bilgiye sahip olmadıklarını göstermektedir. Buna göre, mülakat sonuçları, kültürlerarası farkındalık hakkında öğretimi engelleyen sorunları ortaya koymakta ve öğretim görevlilerinin, özellikle kültürlerarası beceri uygulamada ölçme ve değerlendirme yöntemleri hakkında net bir fikirleri olmadığı için değerlendirme yöntemleri açısından rehberlik ve eğitime ihtiyaçları olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır.

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DEMİRÖZ, H., YEŞİLYURT, S., ÖZIŞIK, B. Z. (2022). Developing intercultural awareness in language teaching: Insights from EFL lecturers in Turkey. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Cilt: 15 - Sayı: 4, 1436–1458. https://ajindex.com/articles/652493

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