TEACHING THE SKILLS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION OF MODERN SPECIALISTS: PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Abstract
The paper discusses the problem of introducing the strategy of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to develop the skills of cross-cultural communication in international environment among university students. The aims of the pilot course included raising intercultural awareness, building cross-cultural communication and English language skills. Ways of tackling these problems and students’ post-course feedback are analyzed and explicated in this paper. The characteristic features of content and forms of realization of a course «Skills of intercultural communication in international environment» are given in the article. The forms and methods of work on the development of cross-cultural and foreign-language communicative competence of students are described, four types of communicative trainings are presented.
About the Authors
N. A. Emelyanova
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
PhD in psychology, associate professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Languages
Russian Federation
PhD in psychology, associate professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Languages
E. A. Voronina
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
PhD in philology, associate professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Languages
Russian Federation
PhD in philology, associate professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Languages
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