خلاصة:
Human beings are defined as an embodiment of social and cultural
understanding which can develop by engaging in various social contexts.
Cultural intelligence and cultural identity are, thus, accounted noteworthy in
learning particular aspects of language which are culture-specific. The present
study intended to investigate the interaction effect of cultural intelligence and
cultural identity on Iranian EFL learners’ use of politeness strategies. To that
end, the participants were divided into two groups of high and low cultural
intelligence and cultural identity. Moreover, regardless of their membership in
the two groups, the participants were included in the assessment of the
relationship between cultural intelligence and politeness strategies. Fifty-two
intermediate language learners whose proficiency level was determined through
Oxford Quick Proficiency Test were required to fill out the questionnaires of
Cultural Intelligence, L1 Cultural identity and Discourse Completion Tasks.
Two-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation were used to analyze the research
questions. The results of the two-way ANOVA showed no interaction effect of
cultural intelligence and cultural identity levels on the use of politeness
strategies. Moreover, the analysis of the relationship between the four factors of
cultural intelligence and the use of politeness strategies yielded no significant
relationship. The findings can inform imminent obliterating of L1 cultural
identity among EFL learners. Broaching the subjects such as globalization,
cultural homogeneity and English linguicism, the study calls for the need for
further inquiries to revise already established findings such as the role of home
culture, L1 and attitudes towards target culture in EFL domain
ملخص الجهاز:
The present study intended to investigate the interaction effect of cultural intelligence and cultural identity on Iranian EFL learners’ use of politeness strategies.
The results of the two-way ANOVA showed no interaction effect of cultural intelligence and cultural identity levels on the use of politeness strategies.
Keywords: cultural intelligence; cultural identity; politeness strategies; interaction effect; EFL learners * University of Qom, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, PO Box No. 37185-396, Qom, Iran Received: 06/04/2018 Accepted: 26/09/2018 Email: rmhosseinpur@gmail.
As a result, in addition to the analysis of the interaction effect of cultural identity and aggregated representation of cultural intelligence, this study intended to scrutinize the relationship between each of the four dimensions of cultural intelligence and politeness strategy in the Iranian EFL context to better signify whether the outcomes match to the aggregated CQ or each specific dimension.
As such, this study intended to analyze the interaction effect of cultural identity and cultural intelligence on politeness strategies through the following research questions: 1.
4. Results and Discussion The general concern of the present research was to study the interaction effect of cultural intelligence and cultural identity on the use of politeness strategies by Iranian EFL learners.
The results of the two-way ANOVA indicated an insignificant interaction effect between both levels of high and low cultural intelligence and cultural identity on the use of politeness strategies.
The findings indicated no significant interaction effect between cultural intelligence and cultural identity on the various use of politeness strategies.