The relationship between intercultural sensitivity and English language achievement

Year 2019, Volume: 15 Issue: 3, 1204 - 1214, 01.10.2019

Fatma Çiloğlan Mehmet Bardakçı

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.631563

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The relationship between intercultural sensitivity and English language achievement
The present descriptive study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between intercultural sensitivity and language achievement of learners of EFL in Turkey. To this aim, the quantitative research methodology was used. The number of female participants was 120, and that of the male participants was 205. A total of 325 participants who were attending preparatory school at a state university were selected using cluster random sampling. The “Intercultural Sensitivity Scale” developed by Chen and Starosta (2000) was used to obtain the quantitative data. The findings indicated that there is a weak statistically significant positive correlation between intercultural sensitivity and English language achievement of learners of English as a foreign language in Turkey. However, there was a significant difference between the intercultural sensitivity scores of the participants regarding the English language proficiency levels. The results showed that the higher the proficiency level, the greater the intercultural sensitivity scores are. Additionally, findings indicated that there was not a significant difference between intercultural sensitivity scores of the female and male participants
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Keywords

Intercultural sensitivity; English language proficiency; language achievement; intercultural competence; Turkish context

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