Cross-Cultural Communication and Teaching Business Written Language to Chinese Students

Abstract

The research presents and generalizes the research results obtained with the methodology for creating the original course of Business Russian at the Faculty of the Russian Language of Sun Yat-sen University. The concepts of business letters and business language are practically the same in the Chinese language. The chapter discusses the theoretical questions of “cross-cultural communication,” “business letters,” and “business Russian” and practical problems of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The research objects are the business letters used in cross-cultural communication. Educational projects aimed at studying business correspondence attract significant interest in future cross-cultural studies of student respondents that forms their research skills. The author analyzes business letters in Chinese and Russian business verbal communication, which is a part of cross-cultural communication in project work done by the Chinese students at the bachelor's level.