Open AccessThe Development of Intercultural Sensitivity of Business English Majors by the Multimodal Teaching Program
Author(s) -
Xin Yang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of language teaching and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0684
pISSN - 1798-4769
DOI - 10.17507/jltr.0904.15
Subject(s) - china , sensitivity (control systems) , cultural sensitivity , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , engineering , political science , electronic engineering , law , psychotherapist
This study is to empirically investigate the effect of the multimodal teaching program in developing Chinese learners’ intercultural sensitivity. This experiment was carried out among 31 business English majors from a local university in Southwest China within one semester. The findings indicated that the participants showed a great improvement in their general level of intercultural sensitivity, and it is worth mentioning that among the factors of intercultural sensitivity, interaction confidence and attentiveness have witnessed a greater progress than the other factors.