Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


The Importance of the Inclusion of Global, Local and Intercultural Issues in Secondary School Teachers’ EFL Classes

The participating teachers were asked to rate how important they think it is to deal with global, local, intercultural, and controversial issues in their EFL classes on a five-point Likert scale. The results suggest that the participants feel that it is more important than not to deal with global content in their English classes, as in all four cases, the means of the scales were above 3.00 (partly important, partly not). The results of the Paired Samples t-test show that the teachers find it equally important to deal with global and intercultural issues in their classes, and significantly more important to deal with global (M = 4.40; SD = .76) and intercultural (M = 4.37; SD = .84) than local issues (M = 3.87; SD = .92), t = 6.81, p < .01. There was also a significant difference in how important teachers believe it is to deal with local issues (M = 3.87; SD = .92) and controversial issues (M = 3.62; SD = 1.13), t = 3.10, p < 0.01, thus, based on the results of the Paired Samples t-test, it can be confidently stated that according to secondary school teachers in Hungary, dealing with controversial issues is the least important among other global content. The means awarded to each item can be found in Table 5.16 in descending order.

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/diveki-developing-global-competence-in-the-hungarian-efl-classroom//

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