Intercultural communication as a medium future specialists’ ecological culture formation

Abstract

A significant role in intercultural communication is assigned to language as a means by which representatives of different linguistic and ethnic communities are mutually understood and interacted. The relevance of given study is in the fact that intercultural communicative competence ensures the development and acceptance of general rules and norms of behavior that constitute international communication etiquette. The object of this article is the university educational system. The subject of the paper is intercultural communication as one of the mechanisms for an individual’s ecological culture formation. The study is aimed to identification of the role of intercultural communication in an individual’s ecological culture formation. The author presents intercultural communicative competence as a skill of mutual understanding of different cultures representatives. Experimental training using interactive technologies and test the effectiveness of the designated conditions in the process of forming intercultural communication was conducted. It was established that intercultural communication was an effective mechanism in the formation of an individual’s environmental culture.