Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Turkish and Kazakhstani ELT Pre-Service Teachers' Intercultural Communicative Competence

Autor/inn/en	Kazykhankyzy, Lazura; Alagözlü, Nuray
Titel	Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Turkish and Kazakhstani ELT Pre-Service Teachers' Intercultural Communicative Competence
Quelle	In: International Journal of Instruction, 12 (2019) 1, S.931-946 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1694-609X
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Intercultural Communication; Foreign Countries; Measures (Individuals); Communicative Competence (Languages); Second Language Learning; Undergraduate Students; English (Second Language); Correlation; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Second Language Instruction; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Pluralism; Turkey; Kazakhstan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ausland; Messdaten; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Korrelation; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kulturpluralismus; Türkei; Kasachstan
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to describe the development of the Intercultural Communicative Competence Scale (ICCS). Two different groups from Turkey and Kazakhstan constituted the sample. The Turkish group (N=258) participated in the piloting process to develop the scale. The Kazakhstani group (N=314) was used to confirm the structure validity of the instrument. Based on review of literature, 76 items important for assessing ICC were generated. After expert revision for the face and content validity of the scale, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were applied. According to the results, the content validity index (CVI) for the ICC scale was found acceptable (CVI=0.7). EFA results found that the scale, consisting of 4 factors and 52 items, explained 50.78% of the total variance. The factor loadings showed that 21 items loaded fairly strongly on Component 1 (Skills), 13 items on Component 2 (Attitude), 12 items on Component 3 (Awareness), and 6 items on Component 4 (Knowledge). CFA results also confirmed the four factorial structure of the scale. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients of four factors and a whole instrument were found 0.946; 0.906; 0.880; 0.806 and 0.958 respectively. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Journal of Instruction. Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Education, Eskisehir, 26480, Turkey. e-mail: iji@ogu.edu.tr; Web site: http://www.e-iji.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01