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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2021.19.12.157

Chinese Undergraduates' Perception of the Integration of Chinese Minority Culture in EFL Classes  

Li, Guihua (College of Foreign Languages, Yanbian University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.19, no.12, 2021 , pp. 157-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate students' perception of the integration of Chinese ethnic minority culture into the college EFL teaching which was carried out in the fall and spring semesters with different presentation topics. One and the same questionnaire was distributed to 61 participants, involving Han Chinese and Chinese ethnic minority students, at a university in ethnic minority area in China at the end of each semester, and SPSS 20.0 was used for t-test to analyze the data. The research results showed that Chinese undergraduates have got more significant improvements in cultural cognition, emotions, attitudes, and multi-cultural values in the spring semester than those in the fall semester. All participants benefit a lot from multi-cultural activities without significant differences between Han Chinese and ethnic minority students in both semesters. It is suggested that ethnic minority culture be integrated into the college EFL teaching, along with English culture and Chinese mainstream culture, which be administered as a practical teaching mode to develop students' intercultural competence.
Keywords
college EFL teaching; integration of ethnic minority culture; cultural cognition; emotions; attitudes; multi-cultural values;
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