Cultivating Intercultural Attitudes among EIL learners: A Case Study of Undergraduates

Teaching of English as an international language (EIL) necessitates promoting intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to enable the individual to survive and progress in multicultural societies. It thereby requires them to develop intercultural attitudes—one of the essential components of ICC...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Waqar Ali, Muhammad Iqbal, Sareer Badshah
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Language:English
Published: Department of English, University of Chitral 2023-11-01
Series:University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
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Online Access:https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/4
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description Teaching of English as an international language (EIL) necessitates promoting intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to enable the individual to survive and progress in multicultural societies. It thereby requires them to develop intercultural attitudes—one of the essential components of ICC. The current paper strives to fathom their intercultural  attitudes before and after the intervention, and to measure the impact of the treatment on their intercultural attitudes. Based on the material designed for promoting intercultural competence, a semester-long course was carried out as the intervention. Unlike the control group, the treatment group was exposed to the treatment. A self-report survey was administered to both groups before and after the treatment. Though both groups reported improvement in their attitudes, the mean differences and effect size values for the cumulative scale and subscales indicate a substantial difference between the attitudes of the two groups; it thereby may be inferred that the treatment proved to be effective in cultivating intercultural attitudes. Furthermore, female participants slightly surpassed the male participants in certain attitudes, but the difference infinitesimal.
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spelling doaj-art-003b76428a084389a1f9edcba0bcd0342024-12-27T23:15:40ZengDepartment of English, University of ChitralUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature2617-36112663-15122023-11-017I10.33195/fkqm5763Cultivating Intercultural Attitudes among EIL learners: A Case Study of UndergraduatesMuhammad Waqar Ali0Muhammad Iqbal1Sareer Badshah2Islamia College PeshawarIslamia College PeshawarIslamia College Peshawar Teaching of English as an international language (EIL) necessitates promoting intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to enable the individual to survive and progress in multicultural societies. It thereby requires them to develop intercultural attitudes—one of the essential components of ICC. The current paper strives to fathom their intercultural  attitudes before and after the intervention, and to measure the impact of the treatment on their intercultural attitudes. Based on the material designed for promoting intercultural competence, a semester-long course was carried out as the intervention. Unlike the control group, the treatment group was exposed to the treatment. A self-report survey was administered to both groups before and after the treatment. Though both groups reported improvement in their attitudes, the mean differences and effect size values for the cumulative scale and subscales indicate a substantial difference between the attitudes of the two groups; it thereby may be inferred that the treatment proved to be effective in cultivating intercultural attitudes. Furthermore, female participants slightly surpassed the male participants in certain attitudes, but the difference infinitesimal. https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/4attitude measurement scale (AMS),curiosity,empathytoleranceethnorelativityrespect
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curiosity,
empathy
tolerance
ethnorelativity
respect
title Cultivating Intercultural Attitudes among EIL learners: A Case Study of Undergraduates
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title_short Cultivating Intercultural Attitudes among EIL learners: A Case Study of Undergraduates
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topic attitude measurement scale (AMS),
curiosity,
empathy
tolerance
ethnorelativity
respect
url https://www.jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/jll/article/view/4
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