Simulating intercultural communication through role-playing.

The article reveals the essence of the concept of "intercultural competence of the future lawyer", which is to be interpreted as an integrative, multileveled, professional personal quality that synthesizes a set of knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, determined by the goals and objectives of intercultural communication on the basis of mutual respect, mutual understanding and mutual enrichment. Intercultural competence is considered as an integral system which consists of certain components, relatively independent, but interrelated and interdependent. These include: communicative, socio-cultural, motivational-value, affective, cognitive ones. It is proved that the formation of intercultural competences of lawyers will promote the application of innovative methods and forms of training (business / role games, debates, discussions, disputes, modellings, simulations, etc.), among which intercultural training is of particular importance. The latter aims at familiarizing its participants with intercultural differences, role-playing the specially created situations of intercultural communication that help students in better understanding of the existing cultural differences, and to teach them to build their relationships with representatives of other cultural environments on the basis of tolerance. In this regard, it will be efficient to organize and conduct such trainings as: "Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms", "Communication in the work of a lawyer"; "Working with vulnerable groups of clients of the system of free legal aid"; "My professional development"; "International humanitarian law", "All are equal – all are united", etc. Also important are intercultural workshops aimed at cultivating tolerance, for example, "Tolerance. Prevention of xenophobia", "Intercultural communication and ethnic stereotypes", etc.

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Developing Russian Phd Students’ Academic Culture in EAP Courses for International Communication and Co-Operation

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.26417/ejis.v4i2.p103-114 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 103

Author(s):

Victoria V. Safonova

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Academic Culture ◽

Psychological Theory ◽

Role Playing ◽

Communication Barriers ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Academic Settings ◽

English Speaking ◽

Academic Communication

The paper gives a didactic insight into the concept of “intercultural academic communication” /IAC/ analyzing its types, forms, structure and bilingual input for the purposes of improving Russian advanced students’ communication skills as intercultural speakers and writers in English-speaking academic settings. On the basis of the 2015-2017 cross-cultural analysis of Russian Master’s Degree - PhD Students’ experiences of intercultural communication it provides a didactically-oriented and competency-based classification of communicative barriers to effective cross-cultural academic communication, describing such of them as linguistic, pragmatic, sociocultural, cognitive and visual communication barriers. The paper argues that the theoretical framework for designing tasks aiming at improving PhD students’ bilingual pluricultural competence to use English as a lingua franca in intercultural academic settings is to be based on L. Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory, A.N Leontiev’s activity theory, A.A. Leontiev’s psychological theory of communication, S. Hall’s theory of cultural factors and contexts and culturally-oriented FLT approaches to developing students’ bilingual academic competences on a multidisciplinary basis. The paper concludes with some recommendations on creating a hierarchical set of multidisciplinary problem-solving tasks and activities specifically designed to help PhD students meet new 21st century challenges of intercultural communication - co-operation, avoiding culture-bound academic pitfalls in today’s extremely complicated world. Among these tasks are those that involve PhD students’ into: a) observing and generalizing the similarities and differences of communicative and/or cognitive academic schemata in Russian and in English; b) classifying communicative barriers between intercultural speakers or writers (incl. English native - non-native speakers); c) interpreting the appropriacy of academic products in a FL from a global intercultural perspective; d) making suggestions for necessary pluricultural academic self-education in order to be able to foresee and/or identify communication barriers and find effective communicative tools to bridge intercultural academic gaps; e) doing thought-provoking case-studies in IAC; f) transforming interculturally inappropriate academic products in a FL into appropriate ones; g) group role-playing of IAC schema modes involving different academic roles that are typical of English-speaking international science co-operation settings; h) doing “Study - Innovate” projects.

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Tarpkultūrinė komunikacija ir internetas: tarpkultūrinės komunikacijos vaidmuo interneto bendruomenėse

Informacijos mokslai ◽

10.15388/im.2008.0.3390 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 22-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Maciej Kałuża ◽

Ewa Golik

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

Role Playing ◽

The Internet ◽

Internet Communication ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Face To Face ◽

Role Playing Games ◽

Group Cooperation ◽

Computer Mediated

Straipsnyje pateikiama tarpkultūrinės komunikacijos, egzistuojančios interneto bendruomenėse, analizė, atlikta bendradarbiaujant su grupės MMORPG (angl. Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) nariais. Šio tyrimo tikslas buvo parodyti, kad interneto bendruomenės linkusios turėti gana išvystytas organizacines struktūras, įgalinančias jų narius dirbti kartu atliekant intelektines užduotis. Nors MMORPG tradicinė akis į akį komunikacija yra pakeičiama kompiuterių perduodama komunikacija (angl. computer mediated communication), vis tiek galima pamatyti, kaip formuojasi specifinės grupės kultūra. Tyrimo metu nustatytas dar vienas svarbus veiksnys – interneto bendruomenėse, kurias sudaro MMORPG nariai iš skirtingų kultūrų, pasaulio religijų, matyti, kad kultūriniai jų sąveikos aspektai ne tik atsiskleidžia iš jų veiksmų, bet taip pat turi didelę įtaką žaidėjo elgsenai ar grupės organizavimui. Ilgo bendradarbiavimo veiksnys rodo, kad tarp žaidėjų, priklausančių MMORPG, yra susiformavusių specifinių komunikacijos formų ir integruojanti grupės kultūra.Intercultural communication and the Internet. The role of intercultural communication in Internet societiesMaciej Kałuża, Ewa Golik SummaryThe subject of our paper is an analysis of intercultural communication, in Internet societies, concentrated on group cooperation in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). The main purpose of our study was to show that Internet societies tend to have a highly developed structure of organization, enabling them to work together on very sophisticated tasks. Even though in MMORPGs a traditional face-to-face communication is replaced by the computer-mediated communication, we can still observe emergence of specific group cultures as defined by traditional sociology. Also, a rather important factor is that due to the fact that the Internet societies found in MMORPGs are made up of players from different cultures, world regions, the cultural aspect of their interaction is not only visible in their actions, but also tends to have a strong influence on players’ behaviors and group organization. The fact of a long cooperation among players playing the MMORPGs also results in a very specific form of communication and a highly complex in-group culture.Key words: Internet, communication, group, organization, structure

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Effective intercultural communication skills development of university students

Tambov University Review Series Humanities ◽

10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-179-105-112 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 105-112

Author(s):

Tatyana Bortnikova ◽

Marina Dolzhenkova

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Intercultural Communication ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Role Playing ◽

Educational Process ◽

Skills Development ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Role Playing Games ◽

Different Cultures

We analyze the problem of effective intercultural communication skills development of university students. We emphasize that the development of these skills can be optimized through the use of the method of game modeling of communication situations, taking into account the intercultural differences of the dialogue participants. The analysis of reflection of cultural aspects of behavior on the example of the attitude to time representatives of different cultures using both different and common languages. We emphasize that members of different linguistic and cultural communities react differently to the same situations depending on their cultural background. The degree of success of the formation of skills of effective intercultural communication largely de-pends on a well-built system of role-playing games in the educational process. We conclude that it is necessary to create conditions under which the process of formation of effective intercultural communication skills can be formed by solving the problems of expanding the background cultu- ral knowledge, learning communication skills, the study of social and psychological standards of different cultures and familiarity with the ethno-cultural traditions and customs of native speakers of the studied language. Also we define the scope of leisure activities for the skills formation as promising.

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Developing Intercultural Communication Competencies Using Various Learning Methods at a Media Communications Study Programme

Journal of International Business Research and Marketing ◽

10.18775/jibrm.1849-8558.2015.46.3002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 15-28

Author(s):

Tijana Vukić ◽

Marijana Zelenik ◽

Tatjana Welzer

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Role Playing ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Learning Methods ◽

Final Exam ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Communication Competencies ◽

Media Communications

Various previous researchers of journalism and media communication education demonstrated the necessity and importance for media workers to be competent in intercultural communication (IC). Slovenian researchers do not discuss these topics, and IC themes are withal mostly part of a non- obligatory courses where usual teaching and learning methods are applied. To examine the effectiveness and usefulness of different teaching/learning methods in developing students’ intercultural communication competencies, an educational intervention research was suitable, as the method is being useful mostly to solve pragmatic issues. Additionally, the study aimed at determining outgoing students’ intercultural communication competencies (ICC) – knowledge, skills, attitudes, and awareness through their cognitive, affective and behavioural dimensions. Two theoretical approaches were used – one stating that ICC are developed by learning on the ground of our innate predispositions and character and the behavioural perspective. This qualitative-evaluative research was conducted within the International and Intercultural Communication course at the first year of Graduate Study of Media Communications at the University of Maribor. It was a trilingual intercultural situation where learning activities such as role-playing, pantomime, case studies, simulations, individual exploration, and reflection were implemented, since students were not used to them. Participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, qualitative questionnaires, evaluation of class activities and a final exam were used as main research methods. Even though the group adapted very soon, the nonverbal activities were most demanding, and individual activities at home the least accomplished. Although they had theoretical knowledge, experience in public speaking, proactivity and self-reflection skills at basic level, their abstract thinking skills, self-awareness and adaptation were medium. However, they showed a great deal of persistence and creativity as a part of a collaborative and cooperative activities. Therefore, focusing on the learning activities stimulating students’ ICC as a part of a real intercultural situation in journalism and mass communication (JMC) education is recommended.

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