Developing Students’ Cultural Diversity Awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Classes - Appendix B: Teaching Materials Analysis Criteria

Songul Dogan Ger: Developing Students’ Cultural Diversity Awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Classes

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Appendix B: Teaching Materials Analysis Criteria

Part 1 Type of Culture

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Dogan Ger, Songul (2025): Developing Students’ Cultural Diversity Awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Classes. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636641689Letöltve: https://mersz.hu/hivatkozas/m1332dscda_954/#m1332dscda_954 (2025. 12. 05.)

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Dogan Ger, Songul. 2025. Developing Students’ Cultural Diversity Awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Classes. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636641689 (Letöltve: 2025. 12. 05.https://mersz.hu/hivatkozas/m1332dscda_954/#m1332dscda_954)

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Dogan Ger, S. (2025). Developing Students’ Cultural Diversity Awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Classes. Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636641689. (Letöltve: 2025. 12. 05.https://mersz.hu/hivatkozas/m1332dscda_954/#m1332dscda_954)

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Types of Culture	Fiction Units	Non-Fiction Units	Non-Fiction Units
Target Cultures: English Speaking Countries (English-speaking Cultures, e.g., UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, etc.)
International Cultures (Other cultures different than English-speaking cultures)

Part 2: Aspects of Culture: Big C, Little c and Deep Culture

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Aspects of Culture	Fiction Units	Non-Fiction Units	Non-Fiction Units
Big C Culture Does the teaching material include any activity related to politics, economy, history, geography, literature, art/social norms, education, architecture, music. If yes, how?
Little C Culture Does the teaching material include any activity related to food, holiday, lifestyle, customs, values, hobbies, gestures If yes, how?
Critical and Deep Culture Does the teaching material deal with any of these? Racism, xenophobia, discrimination (racial, cultural, gender, sexual orientation.), refugees’ problems, social inclusion, social problems poverty If yes, how?

Part 3: Intercultural Components

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Intercultural Components	Fiction Units	Non-Fiction Units	Poetry Units
Attitudes: Does the material develop students’ cultural diversity awareness? empathy towards others? tolerance towards others? curiosity about different cultures? respect to other cultures/nationalities/ethnicities/beliefs/, etc.? challenging stereotypes? national identity? willingness to cooperate with people who have different cultural affiliations.
Knowledge and Understanding Does the material include internal diversity-heterogeneity of cultural groups? awareness and understanding of one’s own and others’ assumptions, preconceptions, stereotypes, prejudices, overt and covert discrimination? understanding the influence of one’s own language and cultural affiliations on one’s experience? communicative awareness, including verbal and nonverbal communicative conventions? knowledge of the beliefs, values, practices, discourses and products used by people by particular cultural orientations? understanding of processes of cultural, societal and socially constructed nature of knowledge?
Skills Does the material develop students’ skills such as? Multi-perspectivity? Discovering information about other cultures? Interpreting other cultural practices, beliefs, values and relating them to their own? Ability to understand and respond to other people’s thoughts, beliefs, values and feelings? Cognitive flexibility? Critically evaluating and making judgements? Adapting their behaviours to new cultural environment? Linguistic, sociolinguistic, and discourse skills? Intercomprehension? (Use of more than one language or variety, or drawing on a known language to understand another) Acting as a mediator in intercultural exchanges, including translating, interpreting and explaining?
Action Does the material develop students’ actions including? Seeking opportunities to engage with different cultural affiliations? Interacting and cooperating appropriately with people from different cultural backgrounds? Discussing differences in views and perspectives, constructing common views and perspectives with people who have different cultural affiliations? Taking actions to defend and protect the dignity human rights of people regardless of their cultural affiliations? Intervening and expressing opposition when there are expressions of prejudice and acts of discrimination against individuals or groups? Challenging cultural stereotypes and prejudices? Encouraging positive attitudes towards the contribution to the society made by individuals irrespective of their cultural affiliations? Mediating in situations of cultural conflict?