RELEVANT TRENDS IN DESIGN OF THE COURSES IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION FOR STUDENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Olga A. Dan'ko ◽  
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Dmitrii V. Enygin ◽  
Venera O. Midova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Practical Orientation ◽  
The Status

The article is devoted to one of the relevant issues of modern professional pedagogy – that is the development of intercultural competence of a future specialist, in particular, the material considers the fundamental elements of professional multicultural training of a future manager; spheres of intercultural communication of specialists of this area are relevantly highlighted. The authors analyze the current situation in the existing large non-linguistic universities of our country and determine the basic requirements of the present time for the competence of the manager; clarify the concept of intercultural competence. The article also provides some evidence for the status of a foreign language in the development of intercultural competence of the student. The article also uses the principles of developing courses for intercultural communication for future managers, enveloping the principles of personality-activity orientation, communicative orientation, professional orientation, the principle of multiculturalism, integration and the principle of relative openness. The principles are based on the main vectors of developing courses on intercultural communication for students of management departments. They are the use of four-dimensional models of the educational process, the analysis of the educational needs of students, teachers and employers, as well as the use of the pyramid of academic benefit. Particular emphasis is placed on the need for practical orientation in designing the courses on intercultural communication.

scholarly journals PROJECT AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF RURAL SCHOOLS AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE FORMAT OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-76
Author(s):  
Tamara V. Lodkina ◽  
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Elena F. Volokitina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Status

The article examines the experience of implementing international educational telecommunication language projects «Friendship Bridge (Pont de l'amitié) Russia – France» and «Friendship Bridge (Lilian and Abraham Memorial Academy) Russia – Africa», organized in a remote format by Ogarkovo Secondary School named after M. G. Lobytov of the Vologda Municipal District of the Vologda region, which has the status of the innovative state platform. International educational telecommunications language projects act as tools for modernizing the educational process, ensuring the implementation of a personal-oriented paradigm of education. Several individual educational and research projects of students related to country studies, local history topics are also presented. Participation in projects with the help of specialized information and educational environment created, based on means of information exchange at a distance, makes it possible for students to perceive a foreign language not just as a school subject, but as a means of real communication, a means of obtaining information, free conversation at a distance with a friend, acquaintance with the cultures of other countries. They gain selfconfidence, experience positive emotions from the opportunity to use the latest achievements of modern technology and information resources. At the same time, the role of the teacher in the new information environment remains leading. It is shown that the experience of international cooperation is the basis for the formation of the intercultural competence and tolerant consciousness. And it is clear from our experience, design and research activities contribute to the development of critical thinking, increased interest in the study of foreign languages, awareness of the need to engage in selfeducation, the formation of skills to design knowledge independently, predict, navigate in the information space, see the possible consequences of different solutions. The inclusion of schoolchildren in active creative, independent activities based on project research is one of the ways to form the skills to conduct scientific search and develop their research abilities. Students, having mastered new educational technologies, more widely disclose their potential for communicative foreign-language development as a subject in mastering a foreign language.

scholarly journals Building academics’ foreign-language communicative competence in scientific areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
N. V. Bykhtina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The paper raises the problem of building the communicative competence of academics. Analysis of the theoretical material of the research helps further investigate the process of learning a foreign language by postgraduates within departmental educational milieu and define the foreign-language communicative competence of a research academician. In accordance with the logic of the presented research, the author uses a complex of complementary methods. They are theoretical research (systematic and theoretical analysis, studying the references in Pedagogy and Methodology of teaching a foreign language, comparative analysis of the Russian and foreign experience, considers the peculiarities of the content of research academicians training in a foreign language), pedagogical research (discussion, supervision, interview). The author stresses the necessity to improve the substantive component of foreign language training of the researcher, taking into account the professional orientation, the use of professional terminology by those who are engaged in research activities. That makes them capable of doing interpretation, précis-writing and abstracting scientific papers in English, thus building their foreign-language communicative competence. The author concludes that in the educational process it is advisable to use a manual, an interactive dictionary and a thesaurus for the successful organization of the process of building the foreign-language communicative competence of the research academician. The content of the materials mentioned above should be aimed at forming postgraduates’ readiness to participate in Russian and international research teams and use modern scientific terminology in a foreign language in various international scientific and representative conferences.

scholarly journals INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT THE MODERN ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF STUDYING POLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

10.23856/3606 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Lаrysа Bondаrchuk ◽  
Tаmаrа Podgurskа
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Modern Economic

The article is devoted to the problems of the use of cross-cultural communication in language education in modern economic university on the example of studies of Polish as a foreign language. Special attention is paid to introduction of design of situation of professional activity in the educational process, also to research work as an element of increase of the intercultural communication on studying Polish as a foreign language. It is underlined that the lexicographic component of professional education of students-economists is an important part of educational work.

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence among Moroccan EFL students: Focus on raising their Cross-cultural Awareness

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Driss Benattabou
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Deep Culture ◽  
Efl Students

         The goal of this paper is to consider alternative ways to incorporate an intercultural communication course as an integral part of the curriculum designed for Moroccan learners of EFL. Some aspects of what comes to be dubbed as ‘deep culture’ should find room in the contents of the EFL course so as to alert Moroccan learners about the potential intercultural barriers they are far more likely to face. It is proposed that for an effective intercultural communication to take place, the English course should help foreign language learners explicitly understand what target linguistic forms might be and how their meanings may differ across cultures. The analysis of some instances of intercultural misunderstandings may surely give more credence to the vital importance of implementing a multicultural approach to education. This paper offers some teaching strategies to assist Moroccan learners of EFL overcome these intercultural barriers.

scholarly journals Взаимосвязи и взаимообусловленности межкультурного образования и коммуникации на иностранном языке

2013 ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Culture Development ◽  
And Linguistics

The contemporary glottodidactics is an interdisciplinary science, which is reflected, among others, in the transition from mono- to bi- and multiculturalism. The main objective of this paper is to define the relationships between, and conditions of, intercultural teaching and foreign language communication. The following issues will be explored in detail: - discussion of the main assumptions of the post-communicative paradigm of contemporary glottodidactics; - definition of the subject of cultural studies and linguistics in the context of the relationships between “language and culture”; - development of relationships in terms of communication and intercultural competence; - definition of the main objective of intercultural communication; - analysis of relationships as well as intercultural teaching and communication based on examples.

scholarly journals METHODICAL APPROACHES OF THE INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE FORMATION OF FUTURE ECONOMISTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Polyakova ◽  
Alina F. Nigmatullina ◽  
Margarita A. Mihailova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Simulation Games ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
Master's Degrees

The paper represents the results of conducted experiments on the formation of intercultural competence among undergraduate economics students of Kazan Federal University (Russia). Aimed at describing the advantages of the intercultural competence formation approach, the article focuses on the evidence of competence-based approach’s effectiveness in the formation of intercultural competence. The business games, projects, discussions, brainstorming, and simulation games were used as the methods of the formation of the intercultural competence. Both a linguistic and a cultural components have become increasingly important in the personality of an international level modern economist. In addition to knowledge in the professional field, future economist needs to possess cultural, sociocultural knowledge and skills that allow him to adequately represent himself in situations of intercultural communication. This problem is widely discussed these days due to the active growth of theoretical and practical interest in issues of intercultural communication. The introduction of a two-level education system (bachelor's and master's degrees) in Russia entails a considerable number of changes, including creating courses related to the world economy in a foreign language. These programs must be compiled in accordance with the federal state standards of the generation 3+ and must be implemented in the professional training of future economists at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of the KFU. Hence, there is a need to increase the level of intercultural competence of future specialists in the economy field and the need for pedagogical theory and practice in the formation of intercultural competence of students in the process of teaching a foreign language at a university.

scholarly journals Deutsche Spuren in der Ukraine im Deutscheunterricht: illustrativ, interaktiv, kommunikativ

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Vita A. Hamaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Smooth Flow ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The article deals with the problem of the development of intercultural competence, which is one of the key competences in foreign language education. The focus lies on examining the opportunities available to use the topic of German Trails in Ukraine as a material for developing intercultural competence. The theoretical foundations on which the research was conducted are analyzed: the essence of intercultural communication, the conditions of its smooth flow; the essence of intercultural competence, its constituents and the relations between them; the role of country studies (both the country of the target language and its own history) in the acquisition of background knowledge, the ability to compare cultures, to tolerate differences between them, and furthermore. Considering that the development of intercultural competence at a level that would ensure the effective implementation of intercultural communication is primarily due to the presence, in addition to language acquisition, of intercultural knowledge, perceptions of the rules of communicative behavior and the positive disposition of learners, an important element is the approaching of the target culture, the removal of prejudices about the „alien“. This can be achieved through the inclusion in the educational process of materials from the immediate environment of learners. For exemple, the theme „Traces of the Germans in Ukraine“ is used, in which work, on the one hand, reveals facts of the history of the Germans and Germany in the European format, and on the other, the facts of the history of their own country, the history of their immediate surroundings, at the expense of which the story of „alien“ is transferred to the personal sphere. Among the possible forms of work on the topic focuses on three: work with texts containing information, the history of the Germans as a motivation for communication, the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach to training of project activities.

Fostering English Learners' Intercultural Competence and Multicultural Awareness in a Foreign Language University in Northeastern China

2017 ◽  
pp. 890-913
Author(s):  
Lili Qin ◽  
Theresa D. Neimann
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Multicultural Awareness ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

Strategic leadership needs to address the improvement of multicultural awareness of foreign language learners in China in order to enhance students' intercultural competence (IC). As part of strategic leadership and management this should be one of the foremost tasks of foreign language education in the context of globalization. An analysis of the following factors: needs of society, school, teacher and students with consideration to Taba's 7-step curriculum design theory, led the researchers to conclude that the implementation of a series of innovative intercultural communication (IC) courses, called 4-D (four-dimension) IC modules which included Intercultural Communication Theory module, Chinese Culture module, World Cultures module (cultures from different countries) and Comparative Methodologies of Chinese & Western Cultures module was the defining factor that led to multicultural awareness. The curriculum was oriented to multicultural awareness development and carried out in a foreign language university in northeastern China. The result demonstrated that student IC awareness increased comparatively slight, without the training of the above courses, while that of the students participating in the courses was significantly higher, which means the expected goal of upgrading the IC of foreign language talents has been achieved.

Language learning of future food industry engineers in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Галина ЧЕРЕДНИЧЕНКО
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Innovative System ◽  
Technology Market ◽  
Skill Category

The article examines the current situation of training of future food industry engineers in Ukraine, syllabuses, competences they have to obtain, skills. Communicating skill is considered the number one skills by 94% of employers of Food and Technology market. This skill category includes writing, reading and presenting information, listening and understanding instructions and ability to speak other languages (specifically English). The author offers to implement the innovative system of foreign language learning into educational process of future food industry engineers. The pedagogical system should be based on the principles of continuity, additionality, the combination of heuristic and reproductive methods, interdisciplinary integration, socio-cultural and professional orientation, the variability of group interaction. The techniques which foster the formation of foreign language competence of future food industry engineers are proposed.

The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Kramsch
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Language Classrooms

While communicative competence is characterized by the negotiation of intended meanings in authentic contexts of language use, intercultural competence has to do with far less negotiable discourse worlds, the ‘circulation of values and identities across cultures, the inversions, even inventions of meaning, often hidden behind a common illusion of effective communication’ (Kramsch, Lévy & Zarate 2008: 15). The self that is engaged in intercultural communication is a symbolic self that is constituted by symbolic systems like language as well as by systems of thought and their symbolic power. This symbolic self is the most sacred part of our personal and social identity; it demands for its well-being careful positioning, delicate facework, and the ability to frame and re-frame events. The symbolic dimension of intercultural competence calls for an approach to research and teaching that is discourse-based, historically grounded, aesthetically sensitive, and that takes into account the actual, the imagined and the virtual worlds in which we live. With the help of concrete examples from the real world and foreign language classrooms, the paper attempts to redefine the notion of third place (Kramsch 1993) as symbolic competence.

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