期刊刊名：科技學刊－人文社會類 卷期：19卷3期
篇名出版日期：2010年12月1日
作者：Cheng-Ji Lai,賴政吉
語言：English
關鍵字：sociocultural adaptation, intercultural sensitivity, sojourning educators, 台灣之外籍教師,社會文化適應,跨文化敏感度
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摘要： The first objective of this study was to investigate the sociocultural adaptation and intercultural sensitivity of international Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) instructors in Taiwan’s colleges and universities. Sociocultural adaptation depicts how effectively sojourners fit into the host culture (Ward & Kennedy, 1999) while intercultural sensitivity (ICS) is an individual’s reactions to cultural differ-ences (Bennett, 1993). The second objective of this study was to assess if seven pre-dictor variables (age, gender, nationality, the length of residence in Taiwan, the length of previous living experience overseas, the length of studying Mandarin, and the frequency of interaction with Taiwanese) were related to these instructors’ so-ciocultural adaptation and their intercultural sensitivity. The first instrument used in the study was the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS) by Ward and Kennedy (1999) to assess participants’ levels of sociocultural adaptation and intercultural challenges. The second instrument employed was the Intercultural Development In-ventory (IDI) by Hammer and Bennett (2001a, b) to measure participants’ levels of intercultural sensitivity in accordance with the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) outlined by Bennett (1993). Of 176 international TEFL in-structors in Taiwan higher education institutions, 44 completed the SCAS while 35 completed the IDI. The SCAS results showed that these 44 international TEFL in-structors in Taiwan had a “slight difficulty” in adapting to life in Taiwan as termed in the SCAS, but no statistically significant relationship was found between the seven predictor variables and their sociocultural adaptation. The IDI results indicated that the average level of ICS for these 35 instructors was in “Minimization” while these same seven variables were also found to be uncorrelated with their intercultural sensitivity. However, the findings revealed that females were less ethnocentric than males and were more effective in switching their cognitive frames of reference and behavioral codes in intercultural settings.
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