Ethnic-related diversity engagement differences in intercultural sensitivity among Malaysian undergraduate students

Tamam, Ezhar; Krauss, Steven Eric

doi:10.1080/02673843.2014.881295

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“…For this research, we decided to use the definition of intercultural sensitivity proposed by Chen and Starosta [22]. The authors emphasized the differences between the idea of intercultural adequacy and potency, and this counters confusion in understanding the concept of intercultural sensitivity and gives a more comprehensive theoretical model to gauge this ideology [23,24].…”

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Analysis of Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Levels in Multicultural Contexts

Robles

González

2019

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Societies comprise multiple cultures, meaning that different cultural perceptions exist and that intercultural sensitivity is seen as an indicator of successful intercultural relations. The aim of this research is to establish the intercultural sensitivity levels of teachers in two multicultural cities. The sample consists of 190 teachers in primary education in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and 174 primary teachers of Malaga and Granada, which makes a total sample of 364 teachers. The scale used in this research is an abridged version of the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale: relational engagement, regard for cultural diversity, relational certainty, relational satisfaction, and relational carefulness. The scale has been validated on many occasions in the abridged and unabridged versions. The results show that teachers in Melilla and Ceuta show high levels of cultural sensitivity. There are significant differences depending on the variables analysed and depending on the context. Interaction enjoyment and interaction attentiveness have the highest levels for teachers in this research.

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Analysis of Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Levels in Multicultural Contexts

Robles

González

2019

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“…As reviewed, intercultural communication sensitivity is closely related to various linguistic, psychological, educational and demographic variables such as proficiency in and contact with the target language and culture, willingness to communicate in a SL/FL, gender, and language learning motivation. Nevertheless, some studies have revealed different findings (Bae & Song, 2017;Çiloğlan & Bardakçı, 2019;Liu, 2018b;Morales, 2017;Tamam & Krauss, 2014;Yilmaz, 2019;Yurtseven & Altun, 2015). Yurtseven and Altun's (2015) analyses of 220 questionnaires collected from pre-service teachers in America indicated that there was no significant difference in the ICS levels in regard to gender, study abroad experience, and contact with the target language and culture.…”

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Predicting Effects of Demographic, Linguistic and Psychological Variables on University International Students’ Intercultural Communication Sensitivity

2019

J Ethn Cult Stud

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With globalization, intercultural communication plays an increasingly more important role in various fields, including business, transportation and education. It is the same with intercultural sensitivity (IS), a critical component of intercultural communication. Though much research has been done on IS, little can be found on effects of demographic, linguistic and psychological factors on learners’ IS simultaneously in the same context. Little research can be found on IS in learners of languages other than English either. For these reasons, the present study investigated the predicting effects of linguistic, psychological and demographic variables on university international students’ intercultural communication sensitivity when immersed in the Chinese culture. One hundred and sixty-seven international students studying in a Chinese university in Beijing answered the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, the Willingness-to-Communicate in Chinese Scale as well as the Demographic Questionnaire, and self-rated their proficiency in Chinese. Analyses of the data revealed the following main findings: (1) the participants were generally (fairly) sensitive, confident, attentive and enjoyable in intercultural interactions and respected cultural differences when communicating with people from the Chinese culture, (2) interaction engagement, interaction confidence, and overall intercultural communication sensitivity were significantly positively related to the participants’ ability to effectively communicate with people from the Chinese culture; interaction engagement was also significantly correlated with the participants’ openness to the Chinese culture, and (3) ability to effectively communicate with people from the Chinese culture and use of Chinese were powerful positive predictors for intercultural communication sensitivity. These findings imply that intercultural communication sensitivity is closely related to learners’ linguistic, psychological and demographic variables. Based on these findings, some implications were discussed.

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“…Since all of the study data obtained were based on the students' responses, it should be taken into account that the students might have given biased information, which can be considered as another limitation of the study. There are very few studies about this scale and intercultural effectiveness in different sampling such as medical students (Nameni and Dowlatabadi, 2019), students of in a public university (Tamam and Krauss, 2017), university students from USA and Germany (Fritz et al, 2005). The small sample size is a limitation of the work, and that the results can only be taken as a first approximation.…”

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An exploratory study of intercultural effectiveness scale in nursing students

Yılmaz

Sarı

Dağhan

2020

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Ethnic-related diversity engagement differences in intercultural sensitivity among Malaysian undergraduate students

Cited by 31 publications

References 26 publications

Analysis of Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Levels in Multicultural Contexts

Analysis of Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Levels in Multicultural Contexts

Predicting Effects of Demographic, Linguistic and Psychological Variables on University International Students’ Intercultural Communication Sensitivity

An exploratory study of intercultural effectiveness scale in nursing students

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