English Proficiency, Cross-Cultural Competence and Lingua Franca Participation

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Attitude-Competence Gap Among Chinese University Learners Within the Belt and Road Initiative Intercultural Context

Wissenschaftliche Studie , 2026 , 75 Seiten

Medien / Kommunikation - Interkulturelle Kommunikation

Against the backdrop of multilateral people-to-people exchange under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this explanatory sequential mixed-methods study identifies an attitude-competence gap that divides positive English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) dispositions among Chinese Expanding Circle university learners from their limited practical capacity for in-person cross-cultural communication. Grounded in a revised developmental diffusion model reconstructed from Kachru’s classic three-concentric-circles sociolinguistic framework, ordinal generalized linear model (GLM) analysis of 183 valid student survey responses and three-stage thematic coding of 15 semi-structured interviews demonstrate that receptive reading and listening ELF input only cultivate superficial abstract cultural awareness, whereas sustained, scaffolded oral ELF training acts as an indispensable prerequisite for mediating real-time cross-cultural misalignment and negotiation conflict. This research extends core ELF and intercultural communication theory for Expanding Circle populations and generates granular, empirically grounded suggestions for restructuring exam-centric university foreign language curricula across disciplinary tracks.

• Veranstaltung: Public Speaking
• Autoren: Dr. Stephen Antwi (Autor:in), Li Xin (Autor:in), Lu Yanling (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
• Seiten: 75
• Katalognummer: V1761295
• ISBN (PDF): 9783389204672
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: English as a lingua franca; cross-cultural competence; mixed-methods research; ordinal generalised linear model; attitude-competence gap; Expanding Circle intercultural learning