scholarly journals Diary as a Means for a Student to Discover a Country

Verbum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Loreta Chodzkienė
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Research Task ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Incoming Students ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This paper aims to present a diary as a multifaceted means for incoming international students to become familiar with the host country (in this case, Lithuania), discover it through the ways of immersion and exploration, and reflect upon it on the diary pages. Every year the course of ‘Intercultural Communication’ taught at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, welcomes a large number of incoming students from different parts of the world. Further to the subject syllabus, these students are given a special research task: to delve into the context of the host country, focus on a number of socio-cultural aspects, compare and contrast them to the similar ones in their native countries and reflect upon them in their diaries. The paper provides an overview of the accumulated empirical evidence on the attitudinal discoveries of 84 students representing 21 countries. The employed Interpretive content analysis proved to be a flexible and helpful research method to reveal the informants' existing cultural capital (Bourdieu 1994), to follow the flow of their interpretations consequently leading to the shifts in their attitudes, and thus, contribute to the development of the students' intercultural communicative competence. This paper sheds light on the informants’ attitudes towards Lithuania as the destination country for their Erasmus+ exchange, as well as their impressions of the academic environment of Vilnius University.

scholarly journals The Formation of Intercultural Communicative Competence of Future Teachers in a Trilingual Educational Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (17) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Sandugash Tleubay ◽  
Gulmira Nurzhanova ◽  
Saltanat Ybyshova ◽  
Saltanat Abdigulova ◽  
Aksaule Mankesh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
The People ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
High Level

This study was conducted on the junction of Cultural Linguistics, Methodology and Pedagogy. As the issue of foreign language teaching by implying cognitive lingua-cultural aspects and competence based approach in the formation of intercultural communicative competence for the requirements of the globalizing world is relatively new, the topic can be characterized by a high level of availability. This paper provides an overview of the aspects to foreign language teaching in the formation of intercultural communicative competence and it investigates the following areas: the place and importance of gaining Intercultural communicative competence in foreign language teaching to overcome misbehavior, misunderstanding arising from the cultural and mentality diversity of the people from different lingua-cultural background for cross-cultural and intercultural interaction and communication; contribution to development of cultural based exercises and activities for the aim of intercultural communicative development according to European Union Competence reference.

scholarly journals Formation of the Intercultural Communicative Competence of Students in Process of Learning Foreign Languages

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Liliya Mukharlyamova ◽  
Natalya Konopleva ◽  
Ilkhamiya Galimzyanova ◽  
Irina Berezhnaya
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE USING MODELLING METHOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
A.K. Zhunussova ◽  
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A. Althonayan ◽  
A.A. Golovchun ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
General System ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Modelling Method ◽  
Modern Era

In the article, the modelling is considered as one of the effective methods in the formation of intercultural and communicative competence of students. The FLT system, like any other system, functions and develops in the light of its predetermined goals and planned results, and this regulates the delineation of several subsystems within the parameters of the entire system - in this case, a foreign language education system. The necessity to move away from a narrow book understanding of “foreign languages” towards the general system of foreign language education as a multifaceted area of research has become apparent in the modern era.

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE TEACHER OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ON THE BASIS OF SITUATIONAL SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-203
Author(s):  
G. B. Zhumabekova ◽  
A. A. Golovchun ◽  
A. Kashkynbekova ◽  
T. Yerkimbayev ◽  
A. Gabdrakhman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Simulation Technology ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

The article analyzes the modern requirements of society to the quality of training of future teachers of English, considered contextual training as one of the ways of professionalization of foreign language pedagogical education, situational modeling technologies in the formation of intercultural communicative competence, problem-communicative situations as a unit of the subject content of professionally-oriented training of future specialists.

scholarly journals Standardizing Differences? Standards for Intercultural Competence in Formal Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-265
Author(s):  
Ana Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Do So

The importance intercultural communicative competence plays in contemporary education of foreign languages has provided the latter with an approach that is frequently termed intercultural education. Nevertheless, the topic is still quite controversial, to say the least, and especially so in respect to issues related with the evaluation of intercultural communicative competence. In addition to the difficulties of defining the concept and criteria for its evaluation, we need to address the fundamental question of whether it is possible to evaluate intercultural competence at all, and, if this is the case, whether it is moral to do so. Here we explore the case of Serbia and a project whose goal was to define the standards of competence for foreign languages in formal primary education. As a member of the working group, and thus with the privilege of an insider’s perspective, I analyse the steps that were followed in the development of the standards for intercultural competence. This auto-ethnographic exposition aims at offering a critical analysis of intercultural competence in the curricular documents of foreign languages, but also at providing a space for reflection and self-evaluation.

scholarly journals Analysis of the speech act of request in the foreign language classroom

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Herget ◽  
Noemí Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Pragmatic Awareness ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Different Types

Nowadays, teaching languages for specific purposes, in particular in the field of entrepreneurship, has to focus on pragmatic and intercultural aspects in response to a multicultural professional reality that comprises different areas of knowledge. Our study aims at analyzing the speech act of making a request in German and Spanish by Portuguese native speakers, i.e. BA students of Languages and Business Relations at University of Aveiro. For this study, two different types of tests were performed: the Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and the Rating Assessment Test. The data provided by the answers given to these two surveys will help the teacher to understand the pragmatic difficulties students have when making a request in these two foreign languages. The information obtained will help the teacher to focus on aspects that are really problematic from the pragmatic point of view, and at the same time, to find and implement strategies and activities that help students improve their pragmatic awareness and overcome difficulties that may arise in intercultural communication. Hence, the objective is to contribute to an adequate development of the students' pragmatic and intercultural communicative competence.

scholarly journals Etnopragmatik og interkulturel kompetence: Didaktiske nytænkninger i fremmedsprogsundervisningen

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana S. Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Bias ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Pedagogical Application

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible pedagogical application of ethnopragmatics in the field of language learning and teaching with the purpose of promoting intercultural communicative competence. The ethnopragmatic approach, developed by Anna Wierzbicka, Cliff Goddard and associates within the broad paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, examines cultural aspects of language and communication from an insider’s perspective. The pedagogical potential of ethnopragmatics lies in its effort for unravelling the values, beliefs and norms that lie behind the verbal behavior of a particular cultural group and in doing so without a predetermined cultural bias.

scholarly journals EXPLORING EFL TEACHERS� UNDERSTANDING AND BELIEFS IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN INDONESIAN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nisa Hasanah ◽  
Wawan Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
High School Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Teaching Goals ◽  
Culture Education

As the result of globalization, the English language teaching goals in many countries have shifted from communicative competence to intercultural communicative competence (ICC). However, among the small number of studies on ICC in Indonesia, most of them focus on ICC in the tertiary level which shows there is a gap of work in the secondary level of education. Thus, this article attempts to seek the truth about senior high school teachers� understanding and beliefs as well as revealing their attempts in promoting ICC in the classroom. The case study was employed with two novice teachers as participants through interview and document analysis. The finding shows some interesting facts that both teachers viewed concept of ICC similarly as cross-cultural understanding in a way both to overcome misunderstanding and culture shock. Both teachers believed that language is culture bound, yet, only a very small trace of cultural aspects were shown in the documents; and as they viewed culture as dynamic, yet, the content being taught mainly covered static domain of culture.��Keywords: Byram�s five savoirs; culture education; intercultural communicative competence.

scholarly journals Authentic Materials and Tasks as Mediators to Develop EFL Students’ Intercultural Competence

HOW ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (27) ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Alix Norely Bernal Pinzón
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
English Students

This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language course at a private Colombian university. Its purpose was to identify the role of authentic materials and tasks, based on cultural topics, in the development of intercultural competence in third-level English students. The pedagogical implementation of the activities was designed under criteria proposed by Cortazzi and Jin (1999) to evaluate the material with cultural content. In regard to intercultural competence, Byram’s (2002) dimension of intercultural communicative competence was the support for planning and implementing the tasks. In this qualitative action research study, two surveys, one interview, and teacher field notes were used to collect data. Findings indicate that students were able to understand interculturality, to show respect for other cultures, and to demonstrate interest in getting to know other societies. Likewise, the students reported their willingness to be open to discussing topics related to cultural aspects.

scholarly journals Language education: communicative tolerance as a component of communicative competence

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Anatol'evna Baldanova ◽  
Nataliya Bal'zhinimaevna Dondokova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Form ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this research is language education as teaching a foreign language; the object of this research is the concepts "competency" and "competence". The authors consider the views of foreign and domestic scientists and researchers on the content of the categories "competency" and "competence", and conduct comparative analysis. Particular attention is paid to the elements of the key competencies, namely communication competence. Analysis is conducted on aspects as "communicative competence" and "communicative tolerance". Communicative competence includes not only the command of languages, but also mastering various social roles in the team and the ability to communicate. The author emphasizes the role of the "Foreign languages" discipline in the formation of communicative competence and communicative tolerance of students . The conclusion is made that communicative tolerance is the component of communicative competence. It is necessary to purposefully cultivate communicative competence in students, as the communicative readiness for tolerant communication with the interaction partners. Teaching students a foreign language form communicative competence aimed at mastering the ability of students to communicate tolerantly. The scientific novelty lies in the statement that communicative competence includes not only the command of languages, but also mastering various social roles in the team and students' skill of tolerate communication. The proposed analysis will be of interest to the scientists dealing with the nature of the categories "competency" and "competence".

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