Abstract
Introduction. Higher education involves a complex process for the development of cognitive, social, emotional and cultural characteristics of the individual of future specialists; including forming special behavior patterns that in the future will provide competitiveness and success of employment of the university graduates. Intercultural communicative tolerance is considered to be one of the individual’s significant social and professional qualities which are in demand of the modern society. The importance of intercultural communicative tolerance formation is caused not only by the processes of globalization of professional mobility in the modern world, but also the need to create comfortable coexistence of students in the university multilingual educational environment, to reduce conflicts and to prevent the clash of cultures – bearers of various systems of values and standards. The aim of the research is to reveal the role of intercultural communicative tolerance in the formation of the individual as well as to present a specially designed technology as part of “Foreign Language” learning. The relevance of this research highlights the necessity to shift the emphasis in the foreign language learning process towards practical-oriented learning targeting the development of personal qualities. Methodology and research methods. Methodological framework of the publication is based on the key conceptions of communication-oriented learning. In the process of designing and application of the authors’ technology, experimental methods and the method of comparative analysis were used. Results and scientific novelty. The authors’ definition to intercultural communicative tolerance is given. The urgency of formation of values and semantic attitudes towards improvement of communicative skills and corresponding world outlook objectives among students is proved. The authors described own technology of development of intercultural communicative tolerance, which is conditioned by the internationalization processes in higher education. The features of applying the technology in the process of learning a foreign language at a university were also revealed. The approbation of new methodological tools showed significantly excessive level of interpersonal and intercultural communicative competence of students which has grown due to the technology applied. Practical significance of the research is confirmed by the positive results, proving the effectiveness of applying the development technology, as well as it identifies the need to introduce similar technologies in higher education.
Highlights
Modern society is characterized by diversity and openness; the efforts of many organizations, including educational institutions, are aimed at international cooperation and developing partnerships in solving common problems
Within the framework of group discussions and exchange of opinions, the following questions were discussed: a) What are my and other people’s rights? b) What does respect mean? c) What is tolerance? d) Who is a tolerant person? e) What is my attitude to tolerance? f) Do I consider myself tolerant? g) When do I experience negative emotions? h) Is tolerance important for my life? Based on the qualitative and quantitative data obtained at the initial stage of the research, the following conclusion was drawn: the level of students’ intercultural communicative tolerance was insufficient and there was a need for its development
Based on the received data, the conclusion was the following: the level of students’ intercultural communicative tolerance was sufficient in the experimental group, but it remained insufficient in the control group
Summary
Modern society is characterized by diversity and openness; the efforts of many organizations, including educational institutions, are aimed at international cooperation and developing partnerships in solving common problems. One way to implement such interactions within higher education institutions is the internationalization of the educational process by attracting foreign students to Russian universities. In this regard, the need for Russian students to speak a foreign language is insufficient. The need for Russian students to speak a foreign language is insufficient They need to be eager to have intercultural communications based on respect of human dignity and individuality. They should be open to other cultures, able to show empathy, possess necessary skills to prevent conflicts, and to resolve them in non-violent ways. In order to create conditions for the effectiveness of interpersonal and intercultural communication, to prevent collisions of different value systems and norms, to reduce conflicts and enhance comfortable coexistence of students in a multilingual educational environment, it is necessary to carry out activities in higher educational institutions aimed at creating appropriate worldviews, ideals and principles, and at developing intercultural communicative tolerance, being one of the most significant social and professional qualities
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