Multicultural Competence of Instructors in Turkish Language Teaching Centers

Şengül, Murat

doi:10.1080/09720073.2015.11891823

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“…The ability to deal with diverse learners in different educational contexts for multicultural teaching should be developed during the process of theoretical transference of culturally responsive education to varying classroom settings. Besides, Sengul (2015) highlights that accommodating all differences in cultures, races, and religions in multiculturalism turns to be more and more important in the current era of globalization. Its objectives aim at preventing potential conflict and chaos.…”

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“…From different practices but similar concepts and goals, the importance of multiculturalism has been recognized in different language and teaching contexts as in Smits and Janssenswillen (2019), Sengul (2015), Milans (2006), Riley et al (2004), and Gay (2002). They all put an emphasis on the possible successful conditions for future multicultural preparation and the benefits of being knowledgeable with proper interaction with multiculturalism, especially from the classrooms.…”

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“…With the objectives of offering education without differentiation, language instructors should have multicultural competence and awareness as the means of promoting respect towards different cultures and a suitable setting for mutual understanding for multiculturalism (Sengul 2015). According to this researcher, although the world has different emphases on multiculturalism and multicultural education, a classroom with no discrimination may create a peaceful feeling of belongingness.…”

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“…Their accents may be different and it may not be related to respect or similar issues. However, it should be obtained as a problem without mutual respecting rationalist, intellectual, political and cultural differences in multicultural contexts as compatible with Sengul (2015).…”

Section: The Motives For Bringing Different Values Of Culturalism To mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Promoting EFL learners’ exposure to multiculturalism using Skype in the classroom – a case study

Nguyen¹,

Phan²

2020

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The study aims at indicating the effectiveness of employing Skype in the classroom to promote chances for EFL learners to expose to multiculturalism. Action research was carried out via a one-year case study on a teacherparticipant. The data was collected by observation during Skype connections, the participant's reflections before and after the connections, and interview of the teacher-participant for his reflections for enhancing his learners' chances for acquiring multiculturalism. The findings of the study showed that Skype benefited the teacherparticipant in facilitating multiculturalism in EFL learning contexts, how Skype could be useful for multicultural connections, and the development of learners' common curiosity about other cultures through the exposure to multiculturalism.Keywords: multiculturalism, Skype in the classroom, language teaching and learning 7 Skype is not the only tool in digital environment 8 A new version of Skype -Skype in Education is the advanced application of Skype under Microsoft for educational purposes

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Section: Multiculturalism In Language Teaching and Learningmentioning

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“…In addition, through a cultural approach, students understand grammatical structures and the context and logic of a language (Abusyairi, 2013). Therefore, the cultural competence of foreign language teachers is a must (Sengul, 2015).…”

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From Language Learning Media to Representing Turkish Culture: Cultural Content in Turkish Language Textbooks

Mualimin,

Fathiyakan,

Rahayu

2023

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Language has a close relationship with culture, so that language learning often uses cultural content as a learning medium. Therefore this study aims to analyze the cultural content in textbooks for learning Turkish and its relation as a medium of learning between Turkish languages. This study is qualitative research with a literature study approach. The source of the data in this study was the textbook for learning Turkish, namely "Istanbul Yabancılar İçin Türkçe Ders Kitabı". Data were collected by observing the content in the book. The data obtained were then analyzed using the Miles and Huberman qualitative analysis model: data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The findings in this study lead to the conclusion that cultural content is a crucial and inseparable part of the substance of the book "Istanbul Yabancılar İçin Türkçe Ders Kitabı" as a Turkish language textbook. At this level, the cultural content has two functions at once: bridging understanding related to Turkish grammar and representing the cultural identity of the Turkish people to international students.

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Multicultural Competence of Instructors in Turkish Language Teaching Centers

Cited by 2 publications

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Promoting EFL learners’ exposure to multiculturalism using Skype in the classroom – a case study

Promoting EFL learners’ exposure to multiculturalism using Skype in the classroom – a case study

From Language Learning Media to Representing Turkish Culture: Cultural Content in Turkish Language Textbooks

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