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

B. Zeynep ÖZIŞIK; Savaş YEŞİLYURT; Dr. Hakan DEMİRÖZ

doi:https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.668546

Makale detayları

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

Yazarlar:

B. Zeynep ÖZIŞIK | Savaş YEŞİLYURT | Dr. Hakan DEMİRÖZ

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2019 Vol.15 Issue 4, pp.1436-1458

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000769826

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1305-578X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.668546

Özet:

 

This study aims to reveal EFL lecturers’ opinions about intercultural education and classroom practices including teaching materials, classroom activities, assessment, and teachers’ role for developing intercultural awareness. To gain insights about the current situation in EFL classrooms at a university level in Turkey, lecturers’ opinions and classroom practices have been examined through a questionnaire and an interview. This study, combining both quantitative and qualitative research, was designed according to the mixed method procedure and followed the sequential explanatory strategy. The study covered 172 EFL lecturers from preparatory schools of six state universities, and 12 EFL lecturers selected randomly joined the interview voluntarily. The participating institutions were Atatürk University, Cumhuriyet University, Erciyes University, Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Karabük University, and Karadeniz Technical University. The quantitative results show that although lecturers are aware of 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 about how to put intercultural learning into practice for EFL classroom tasks and activities. Accordingly, the results of the interview present the problems that prevent teaching about intercultural awareness and reveal that lecturers need guidance and training to practice confidently intercultural competence teaching in the classroom, especially in terms of assessment methods as they do not have a clear idea about the assessment and evaluation methods to apply with intercultural competence.

Makale detayları

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

Yazarlar: B. Zeynep ÖZIŞIK | Savaş YEŞİLYURT | Dr. Hakan DEMİRÖZ

Yayıncı: Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2019 Vol.15 Issue 4, pp.1436-1458

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000769826

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

pISSN: 1305-578X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.668546

Sayı

Yazarlar:

B. Zeynep ÖZIŞIK | Savaş YEŞİLYURT | Dr. Hakan DEMİRÖZ

Yayıncı:

Hacettepe University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 2019 Vol.15 Issue 4, pp.1436-1458

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000769826

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1305-578X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.668546