Author(s)

Hamed Ghaemi ¹, Samaneh Soltani ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Bahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran

Corresponding Author

Hamed Ghaemi

ABSTRACT

This study is an attempt to investigate the difference in intercultural competence between collectivist and individualistic Iranian EFL teachers. To this end, the researcher administered ICC questionnaire and collectivists individualistic questionnaire to collect data from EFL teachers. After two months of data collection, 106 teachers responded to the items of both questionnaires. The data were analyzed through running independent samples t tests to find the difference between collectivists/ individualistic groups of teachers regarding their responses to ICC questionnaire. The results revealed that there is a significant difference between these groups and collectivists teachers had a higher mean in comparison to the mean score of individualistic teachers. Moreover, the results of further analysis showed that there is no significant difference between male and female EFL teachers regarding their responses to the ICC questionnaire. The results can be beneficial for both administrators and teachers.

KEYWORDS

Collectivist, Intercultural Communicative Competence, Individualistic, EFL teachers

CITE THIS PAPER

Hamed Ghaemi, Samaneh Soltani, Examining Intercultural Communicative Competence in Collectivist and Individualistic EFL Teachers. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 6-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.050802.

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