Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers

The changing demographics of higher education due to internationalization has made it incumbent upon educators to promote as well as create multicultural learning environments to meet the challenges of teaching in culturally diverse settings. Studies have shown that teachers’ awareness of multi...

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Main Authors:	Muhamad, Ainon Jariah, Othman, Khairiah, Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza, Esa, Zaleha, Abdul Malik, Faridah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	PE English
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spelling	iium-621552018-03-05T08:18:22Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62155/ Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Othman, Khairiah Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Esa, Zaleha Abdul Malik, Faridah PE English The changing demographics of higher education due to internationalization has made it incumbent upon educators to promote as well as create multicultural learning environments to meet the challenges of teaching in culturally diverse settings. Studies have shown that teachers’ awareness of multiculturalism will have a direct effect on students’ behaviour and academic outcomes. It is crucial for teachers to examine their own knowledge and teaching behavior, the values, as well as perspectives of the cultural groups who are the subjects of their teaching, and be able to transfer that knowledge into effective instruction. The objectives of this study are thus to ascertain whether language teachers are aware of what multiculturalism is and what it entails and to investigate their multicultural practices in dealing with a very culturally diverse population of students. The quantitative approach was employed where questionnaires were administered to 40 in-service language teachers of an international higher institution of learning. Findings revealed that that there is to a great extent an awareness of multiculturalism among the staff. There is also a positive indication of integrating multiculturalism in their language classrooms. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62155/2/ICOED2017%20MULTICULTURAL%20AWARENESS%20and%20PRACTICE%20AMONG%20LANGUAGE%20TEACHERS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62155/18/62155_Multicultural%20Awareness.pdf Muhamad, Ainon Jariah and Othman, Khairiah and Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza and Esa, Zaleha and Abdul Malik, Faridah (2017) Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers. In: 2017 3rd International Conference on Education (ICOED 2017, 7th-9th Nov. 2017, Melaka. (Unpublished) https://edas.info/p23683
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description	The changing demographics of higher education due to internationalization has made it incumbent upon educators to promote as well as create multicultural learning environments to meet the challenges of teaching in culturally diverse settings. Studies have shown that teachers’ awareness of multiculturalism will have a direct effect on students’ behaviour and academic outcomes. It is crucial for teachers to examine their own knowledge and teaching behavior, the values, as well as perspectives of the cultural groups who are the subjects of their teaching, and be able to transfer that knowledge into effective instruction. The objectives of this study are thus to ascertain whether language teachers are aware of what multiculturalism is and what it entails and to investigate their multicultural practices in dealing with a very culturally diverse population of students. The quantitative approach was employed where questionnaires were administered to 40 in-service language teachers of an international higher institution of learning. Findings revealed that that there is to a great extent an awareness of multiculturalism among the staff. There is also a positive indication of integrating multiculturalism in their language classrooms.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Othman, Khairiah Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Esa, Zaleha Abdul Malik, Faridah
author_facet	Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Othman, Khairiah Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Esa, Zaleha Abdul Malik, Faridah
author_sort	Muhamad, Ainon Jariah
title	Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
title_short	Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
title_full	Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
title_fullStr	Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
title_full_unstemmed	Multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
title_sort	multicultural awareness and practice among language teachers
publishDate	2017
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