Fig 1.
Convergent mixed methods design.
Table 1.
Demographic information of participants.
Table 2.
School information.
Table 3.
Personal information of ten interviewees.
Table 4.
Teacher preparedness in meeting the national standards -by frequency and by mean score.
Table 5.
Teachers’ main ways in acquiring intercultural knowledge.
Table 6.
Time devoted to self-improvement in intercultural knowledge/skills.
Table 7.
Reasons for not devote more time to IFLT.
Table 8.
The helpfulness of different experiences.
Table 9.
Teacher training programs related to intercultural competence.
Table 10.
The helpfulness of different cultural teaching materials.