scholarly journals The development of Emirati university students' intercultural sensitivity

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanju Deveci ◽  
Glenda Elgamal ◽  
David Dalton ◽  
Donald John Langille
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Writing Task

PurposeThis study investigated the effects of an intercultural communication (IC) course on Emirati university students' intercultural sensitivity (IS).Design/methodology/approachThe participants were 89 Emirati students. The course required student involvement in a variety of tasks and activities, both inside and outside the classroom. The development of the students' IS was tracked using two instruments: the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) and a reflective writing task.FindingsThe difference between the students' overall pre-test and post-test scores was at a statistically significant level. The data from the reflective writing papers showed that the course developed the students' IS with a particular effect on their awareness of other cultures, barriers to effective communication and self-confidence.Originality/valueIn an increasingly globalized world, the findings of this study highlight the importance of a course designed to enhance university students' IS and therefore intercultural competence. They also indicate the need for more experiential learning to bridge in-class and out-of-class experiences which facilitate the development of students' intercultural competence.

Effects of a multicultural perspectives course on teacher candidates’ intercultural competence

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaoying Xu ◽  
Chenfang Hao ◽  
Mary Ellen Huennekens
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Multicultural Perspectives

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the intercultural competence of pre-service special education teacher candidates through the contents of a graduate-level multicultural perspectives course. Design/methodology/approach This study used a graduate-level multicultural perspectives course to examine the intercultural competence of special education teacher candidates. A paired-samples t-test of significance was performed to investigate the pre- and post-growth of participants’s cultural sensitivity using the intercultural development inventory (IDI). Findings Participants’ intercultural sensitivity mean score suggested that their intercultural competence needs to be improved. The results showed no significant difference in the overall mean developmental scores between pre- and post-tests. However, significant differences were found between the pre- and post-test scores in perceived orientation and acceptance cluster. Originality/value A significantly higher perceived score was identified suggesting that participants might overestimate their level of intercultural sensitivity. Different from the existing literature, this study suggested that gender and education level were significant predictors of post-test developmental scores.

The Level and Specifics of Intercultural Sensitivity of the Russian Students Attending Chinese Universities

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
T. Reva
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Globalized World

Studies on intercultural sensitivity as an affective aspect of intercultural competence have been gaining increasing attention in today’s globalized world where representatives of different countries and cultural groups are supposed to function effectively and supportively in various spheres of life. This paper has reported some of the research results indicating the level and specifics of intercultural sensitivity of the Russian students attending Chinese universities. Building students’ intercultural sensitivity is an essential aspect of the Chinese language and culture teaching experience. Practical recommendations have been provided for increasing the students’ level of intercultural sensitivity in order to reduce stress and avoid conflict situations in multinational educational organizations.

scholarly journals Ethno-National Attitudes as Intercultural Competence Predictors in University Students: Gender Differences

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina A. Novikova ◽  
Marina V. Gridunova ◽  
Alexey L. Novikov ◽  
Dmitriy A. Shlyakhta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
University Education ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
R Software ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
National Attitudes

The search for predictors of intercultural competence (ICC) development is one of the important challenges of modern psychology in connection with globalization in all the spheres of modern life, including university education. The purpose of the present research is to show that the ethno-national attitudes (ENA), which Khukhlaev et al. consider as an individual’s predisposition to assess the nationality/ethnicity can determine the severity of ICC features in male and female university students. The sample includes 219 (75% female) first–third year Russian university students. ICC was measured with the author’s modification of the intercultural sensitivity scale (ISS) by Khuhlaev and Chibisova. ISS is based on the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, (DMIS) by Bennett and includes 4 subscales: Minimization, Absolutization, Ambivalence, Acceptance. ENA (Nationalistic, Patriotic, Neutral, Negativistic) were determined with the “Scale of ethno-national attitudes” by Khukhlaev, Kuznetsov, and Tkachenko. Descriptive statistics methods, Wilcoxon W-test, and multiple regression analysis were used for statistical analysis in the R software environment, version 3.5.2. The findings of our research showed that Nationalistic and Patriotic ENA are the strongest predictors of studied ICC scales and have an opposite negative impact on Acceptance and Absolutization in both male and female students. This fact should be taken into account in the context of ICC developments.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of task-based language teaching to improve students' speaking skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-214
Author(s):  
Morita Panduwangi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private College ◽  
Control Group ◽  
English Department ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Post Test ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aims to find out the effectiveness of Task-Based English Teaching (TBLT) to improve college students’ speaking skills. Teaching speaking is considered to be difficult as there are various factors involved, both from the teachers’ part and the students’ as well. TBLT uses authentic sources of teaching materials with tasks as the essence of the teaching instructions. The research was done in a private college in Bogor. Sixty 1st semester-students of non-English department are the subjects of the research. They were divided into two groups: the control group and experimental group. Each group consists of 30 students. The control group was taught using a more conventional method, however the experimental group was taught using Task-based instructions. A pre and post test were administered to both groups to find out the effectiveness of TBLT to improve their speaking skills. The mean scores of pre and post English speaking tests were tabulated using SPSS to identify whether there was a difference in students’ achievement of both groups and whether the difference was significant or not. Questionnaires were also distributed to find out their perspectives towards the English lessons. The results of the tests were supported by the students’ answers in the questionnaires in which all students of the experimental group showed significant improvement in their speaking skills in term of accuracy and fluency. Their perspective after experiencing TBLT in the English lessons also demonstrates a significant change resulting in students’ higher self confidence in speaking.

Optimizing the environmental attitudes inventory

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Sutton ◽  
Emma Gyuris
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students First ◽  
The Difference ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to optimize the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) and second, to establish a baseline of the difference in environmental attitudes between first and final year students, taken at the start of a university’s declaration of commitment to EfS. Design/methodology/approach – The psychometrically designed EAI was used to overcome the problems and limitations of the much-used, but controversial, revised New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale. The performance of the original 72-item EAI was compared with our 37-item reduced form using a population of first- and final-year university students. Findings – The reduced 37-item EAI provides a reliable and valid tool for investigating structured, multi-dimensional environmental attitudes of university students while reducing response burden and increasing response and completion rates compared with the longer versions of the EAI. Research limitations/implications – No attempt is made to link elements of the university experience with changes in attitude between first- and third-year students. The authors expect the 12-faceted EAI to provide more detailed feedback on the affective outcomes of EfS initiatives than currently used instruments. Originality/value – This research contributes to establishing the EAI as a gold standard with which to monitor students’ environmental attitudes. Although most studies aimed at understanding the impact of EfS measure attitude change over relatively short periods of time – typically using the brief NEP scale administered immediately before and after a specific semester course – the approach developed here is designed to detect attitudinal change that may be ascribed to the entire university experience between students’ first and final year.

scholarly journals The Impact of Emotional Intelligence towards Political Behaviour among University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Siti Sarawati Johar ◽  
Sazuliana Sanif ◽  
Fauziah Ani ◽  
Harliana Halim ◽  
Shahidah Hamzah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
University Students ◽  
The Political ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

In this experimental study, the issue is focused on the influence of emotional intelligence in shaping the political behaviour of university youth students. The specific objective of this study is to examine the impacts of emotional intelligence competency on political behaviour among youth at the university by looking at the significance difference in the treatment group and the control group through application of emotional intelligence module. A total of 608 university students were selected as respondents from four public universities in Malaysia. The measuring tools used were the Emotional Intelligence Self-Description Inventory (EISDI), and the Political Behaviour Questionnaire (PBQ). In this study, T-test analysis and ANOVA test were used to determine the difference between the two control and treatment groups. The findings showed that there was a significant impact on the post-test for the treatment group due to the pre-and post-treatment differences. However, the findings from the control group showed no significant value. In addition, the findings show that the treatment group has the impact of changing the political behaviour with the implementation of emotional intelligence competencies in the teaching modules. The findings of this study provided sharing of the importance of the implementation of emotional intelligence among university students to form positive behaviours in political aspects. 

scholarly journals The Effect of Conducting De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats Activity on Developing Paragraph Writing Skills of University Students in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Bala Chatta Swamy ◽  
Mohammad Imdadul Haque ◽  
Venugopal Koppada ◽  
Nannapaneni Siva Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
University Students ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Significance Levels ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of the present study is to examine the effect of conducting De Bono’s six thinking hats activity on developing the paragraph writing skills of university students. Two groups of students studying the course Technical Writing in Business (NAJM 167) of Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University were chosen to achieve this objective. Pre- and post-tests were conducted for both the groups to determine the difference in their mean scores. Both the groups were given the task of writing a paragraph as a pre-test before conducting the activity. Then, in the experiment section, six thinking hats activity was conducted six times, each time changing the hat color of the groups. As the students had class for 100 minutes three times a week, the experimental group did the activity six times for two weeks. The control group was taught the textbook verbatim. The two groups were given the task of writing a paragraph again as a post-test. The paragraphs were evaluated. At 5% significance levels, two-tailed test was applied. The scores of the control group were much lower than the experimental group in the paragraph writing test. The statistics also showed significant differences between mean scores of the two groups. The results prove the effectiveness of six thinking hats activity in developing writing skills of university students. Therefore, the present study recommends that it is appropriate for EFL teachers in Saudi Arabia to make students do the six thinking hats activity along with other activities given in the textbook in order to improve their writing skills.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF INFORMATION SERVICES USING THE MEDIA FILM TO SELF-CONFIDENCE STUDENT OF CLASS VIII SMP NEGERI 8 METRO

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
MUDAIM MUDAIM ◽  
BELARDO FARJANTOKY
Keyword(s):  
Student Perception ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Service Information ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
The Difference

Abstract: Pessimism and attitudes that consider themselves weak and does not have the ability when facing a problem will make individual impediment in the task of development. Problems confidence that underlies the research are: a) Students are less confident in the ability it has, b) Students feel pessimistic when faced with an issue, c) Student perception subjectively, d) Students still do not do the work independently, and e) negative minded students with a state-owned. The problems of this study are whether there is an influence of information services using the medium of film to the confidence of eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Metro. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is an influence of information services using the medium of film to the self-confidence of students in class VIII SMP Negeri 8 Metro. Subject participant is graders VIII-E total 30 students. Data were collected by questionnaire self-confidence and analyzed the data used is the t-test. The results of this study, shown by the difference in change scores of confidence from the pre-test and post-test of 17.1. Testing the hypothesis obtained calculation results thitung6,036> table = 1.699. The conclusion is that the information services implemented using the film medium can be a positive influence on self-esteem, especially students of class VIII. The advice given is to use the medium of film should be done intensively and more creative by BK teachers in giving information service.Keywords: Confidence, Service Information Using Media Film.

scholarly journals Does 12-Week Latin Dance Training Affect the Self-Confidence of the University Students?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odemis Meric ◽  
Adilogullari Ilhan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Working Group ◽  
The Self ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The University ◽  
Confidence Scale

<p>In this research, it is aimed to investigate the effect of 12-week Latin dance training on the self confidence of university students. This research was conducted with a total of 60 students, including 30 students as control and 30 students as working group. 33-item self-confidence scale developed by Akin (2007) was applied to both control and working group. Latin dance training was carried out once a week (2 hours) for a total of 24 hours, in 12 weeks. SPSS 16.0 was used for the evaluation of the data obtained in the study. Percetage, frequency, Paired Sample and Independent t-test were used for the analysis of the data. When post-test scores of self-confidence were evaluated, score of working group was found to be statistically significant compared to control group. According to the result of the research, it might be said that 12-week Latin dance training had increased the self confidence of the participants.<strong> </strong><strong></strong></p>

Effect of the difference between body dimensions and jacket measurements on the appearance of a ready-made tailored jacket

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 627-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ai Monobe ◽  
KyoungOk Kim ◽  
Masayuki Takatera
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Front Side ◽  
Body Dimensions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Japanese University ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Garment Design ◽  
Ease Allowance

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify changes in the appearance of a ready-made tailored jacket due to changes in the ease allowance and determine suitable ranges of the ease allowance for the jacket. Design/methodology/approach Images were taken of the front, side and back of a jacket placed on a dress form with varying sizes of bust, waist and hips. The authors observed the appearance of the jacket for the different sizes of the dress form. A sensory evaluation of the suitable range of ease allowance for the jacket involving 20 female Japanese university students was carried out. The evaluation items were the fit, beauty, comfort and purchase intention. Findings The jacket appearance was lowly evaluated if there were many wrinkles and highly evaluated if there was a curved silhouette. Changes in bust, sleeve and waist parts affected the evaluation of the suitable ranges of ease allowance. The suitable range of ease allowance varied depending on the jacket part and viewing direction. In terms of fit, the suitable ease allowance ranged between 5.6 and 9.9 percent for the bust, between 7.6 and 17.8 percent for the waist and between 2.6 and 8.6 percent for the hips. The suitable ranges were determined considering the wrinkling and silhouette in these parts. Originality/value Suitable ranges of ease allowance of a tailored jacket were determined by evaluating a jacket for 11 dress form sizes of the bust, nine sizes of the waist and seven sizes of the hips, at 2 cm intervals. The obtained suitable ease allowance ranges are useful to manufacturers in terms of garment design and to customers in terms of selecting suitable garments.

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