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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 127, 2021
International Linguistic Science and Practice Conference “Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages 2.0: Real vs. Virtual” 2021
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| Article Number | 02001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Building the Intercultural Communication Competence in Students as a Goal of Teaching a Foreign Language at the University | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202112702001 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2021 | |
Rethinking the intercultural communicative competence evaluation in higher education
1 Russian International Academy for Tourism, Faculty of Tourism Management, Khimki, Russia
2 Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication, Moscow, Russia
3 University of Transport, Navigation Department, Moscow, Russia
4 Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Department of Russian and Foreign Languages, Moscow, Russia
* Corresponding author: efremtseva@rmat.ru
The information and digitalization age, the current phase of globalization are changing the way we think about cultures and communities and, as language teachers and cultural trainers, potentially about what and how we teach. Intercultural communicative competence is as needed as ever in today’s world of geo-economic changes, migration, and rising ethnic and national tensions. To prepare future professionals, there have been different efforts in education including the intercultural and communicative components. The essential contradictions in the language and professional training of students, associated with insufficient attention to the issues of interaction of cultures in the content of university curricula, are highlighted. The Map of Intercultural Communicative Competence Formation in Higher Education is developed considering the contents of bachelor and master programmes for Russian and foreign students. The main emphasis is paid to the separate subjects in intercultural communication study. New approaches to the evaluation of the intercultural communicative competence of students in a multicultural environment are proposed, among which a special focus is placed on the need to organize international projects and conduct events in narrow professional fields. Some examples of tasks to assess the competence in cross-cultural communication show practical application and significance of those disciplines for university students in their future career.
Key words: intercultural communicative competence / cultural types
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