外国留学生与中国大学生的跨文化敏感度对比调查研究_英语论文

Comparative Study on Intercultural Sensitivity of International Students and Chinese Undergraduates 

摘要

本研究运用跨文化敏感度量表对英语专业学生和留学生的跨文化敏感度进行了对比研究。研究结果显示，留学生的跨文化敏感度高于英语专业大三学生。在跨文化敏感度五因素中，留学生与英语专业学生在交际参与度和交际信心方面有显著差异。对于留学生和大三学生来说，差异认同感与交际愉悦感都呈正相关。研究还发现，大三学生和留学生学习外国文化的最主要方式分别是看电影和与外国人聊天。本研究还进一步阐释了留学生的跨文化敏感度高的原因，为人们提供了一些提高跨文化敏感度的好方法，丰富了此领域的研究成果。

关键词：留学生  英语专业大三年级学生  跨文化敏感度  对比研究

Abstract

Adopting Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, this study makes a comparative study on intercultural sensitivity of both English juniors and international students. The findings manifest that international students have a higher level of intercultural sensitivity than English juniors. Among the five dimensions of intercultural sensitivity, international students differ significantly from English juniors in “Interaction Engagement” and “Interaction Confidence”. For both English juniors and international students, “Respect for Cultural Differences” is positively correlated with “Interaction Enjoyment”. It is found that the ways English juniors and international students adopt most frequently to learn foreign culture are watching movies and chatting with foreigners respectively. This study further explores the reason why international students have higher levels of intercultural sensitivity, offers people some productive methods to improve intercultural sensitivity and enriches the research of intercultural sensitivity with the focus on comparison of Chinese students and international students.

Keywords：International Students  English Juniors  Intercultural Sensitivity Comparative Study