The Role of Language Centers in Jordanian Universities in Spreading a Culture of Cultural Diversity among their Students

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the role of language centers in Jordanian universities in spreading a culture of cultural diversity among their students. To achieve the objectives of the study, the survey approach was used to suit the nature of this study, where a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a 400-student sample from Jordanian universities.The results of the study showed that the role of language centers in Jordanian universities in spreading the culture of cultural diversity among their students from the viewpoint of the study sample was at a low level in general, where the field of cultural diversity principles among the faculty members and the field of cultural diversity principles in the field of academic course books ranked first. As for the principles of cultural diversity in the field of university activities, they ranked last. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the study sample estimations of the role of language centers in Jordanian universities in spreading a culture of cultural diversity among their students due to gender and nationality variables.

Keywords: Language centers, Jordan, diversity, university students.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-6-06

Publication date: February 29^th 2020