Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experienceon undergraduates’intercultural sensitivity at the start ofuniversity studies

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• dc.contributor.author Pastena, Andreana
• dc.contributor.author Sesé, Albert
• dc.contributor.author Trenchs i Parera, Mireia
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-11T06:43:16Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-11T06:43:16Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 22 de desembre de 2021
• dc.description.abstract This study investigatesfirst-year undergraduates when starting theirstudies in a highly internationalised public university settled in amulticultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to whatextent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previousintercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree ofIntercultural Sensitivity (IS), in thefive dimensions of this construct(Chen and Starosta2000). 881 students from 15 Bachelor’s degreesanswered two questionnaires covering background profile and Chenand Starosta’s Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (2000). Both descriptive andinferential analyses were performed. Participants from and in such acontext showed high IS at the start of university. However, the analysisyielded differences between the IS Scale dimensions: from highest tolowest means,Respect for Cultural differences,Interaction Enjoyment,InteractionEngagement,InteractionAttentiveness, andInteractionConfidence. Gender, individual plurilingualism, family plurilingualism,and intercultural friendships emerged as the profile variables mostcorrelated with higher IS; birthplace and place of schooling, the least.Results raise awareness on what profile of undergraduates may be morein need of educational interventions not just aiming at their individualIntercultural Sensitivity but also making truly intercultural HigherEducation possible.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was developed within the framework of the Translinguam-Uni Project (https://www.upf.edu/web/trans-linguam-uni) funded by Spain’s Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigaciónand Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional under Grant UE-PGC2018-098815-B-I00.
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• dc.identifier.citation Pastena A, Sesé A, Trenchs-Parera M. Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experienceon undergraduates’intercultural sensitivity at the start ofuniversity studies. J Multiling Multicult Dev. 2021. 13 p. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.2013854
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.2013854
• dc.identifier.issn 0143-4632
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58664
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-098815-B-I00
• dc.rights © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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• dc.subject.keyword Higher education
• dc.subject.keyword individualdifferences
• dc.subject.keyword interculturaleducation
• dc.subject.keyword interculturalinteractions
• dc.subject.keyword interculturalsensitivity
• dc.subject.keyword plurilingualism
• dc.title Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experienceon undergraduates’intercultural sensitivity at the start ofuniversity studies
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