Iranian EFL teachers and learners perspective on potentiality of Top Notch series for interculturalcompetence development

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JR_IJLTR-3-2_004

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 21 شهریور 1395

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The current study aimed at investigating the nature of EFL teachers and learners’ perspectives on theintercultural competence potentiality of an EFL textbook, i.e. Top Notch Series, which is used extensivelyin Iranian institutional EFL context. To this end, forty EFL teachers and eighty-eight advanced EFLlearners from private language institutes of Kermanshah, Kurdistan and Hamadan provinces took aresearcher-made textbook evaluation questionnaire including thirty eight 5-point Likert scale items. Thequestionnaire was designed to assess the text in terms of four factors of cultural awareness, culturalknowledge and attitude, intercultural skills, and cross-cultural understanding. The face and contentvalidity of the questionnaire was verified by the experts in the field. In addition, using Cronbach’s Alphacoefficient, the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated to be α=0.87 in this study. The results ofFrequency analyses indicated that both EFL teachers and learners were satisfied with the overallintercultural competence potentiality of the textbook. However, MANOVA analyses revealed that EFLteachers and learners’ perspectives on the text’s potential for creating cultural awareness, culturalknowledge and attitude, intercultural skills, and cross-cultural understanding were significantlydifferent. The EFL learners believed that the textbook covers the aforementioned factors well enough,whereas, the teachers believed that it falls short of sufficient attention to the factors. Furthermore, theresults suggested that cross-cultural understanding receives scant attention in Top Notch series.Findings of the this study can be specially illuminating for all of the stakeholders of Lingua Francapedagogy who pursue the development of intercultural competence through language education, ingeneral, and language teaching materials, in particular.

Authors

Mohammad Ahmadi Safa

Bu Ali Sina University, Iran

Mohammad Moradi

Bu Ali Sina University, Iran

Raouf Hamzavi

Bu Ali Sina University, Iran