Information Technologies In The Process Of Formation Of Intercultural Communicative Competence

Abstract

Developing an intercultural communicative competence in higher education is becoming crucial within globalization transformations, covering all areas of educational activity. The Saratov State Agrarian University is a reference university with students from close and distant countries. Thus, the issue of intercultural communication, combining traditional forms, methods and teaching aids with innovative ones is important. The main pedagogical technologies in this context are, first of all, information technologies in combination with methods of enhancing learning. The formation of intercultural communicative competency among students was carried out in control and experimental groups. The process of training and the formation of this competency in the control groups was carried out according to the traditional method, while the modern educational technologies were used in the experimental groups. The components that make up the structure of intercultural communicative competence: general cultural, communicative, and strategic, were introduced in stages, over the course of three semesters of studying the discipline Foreign Language. The first stage was aimed at the formation of basic intercultural knowledge; the second stage emphasizes a more expanded and in-depth acquisition of intercultural knowledge, the ability to build communication strategies, and the development of behavioral models. The third stage was to consolidate the acquired skills, making creative tasks, projects aimed at the formation of all components of intercultural communicative competence. In the process of mastering the cultural material by students, they gradually learned another culture, cultural values through the perception of the national picture of the world.