Pre-service Teachers’ Awareness of Communicative Behavior Variations in Translated Film Discourse

Abstract

The issue of national communicative behavior research became urgent with the rapid development of international relations. Interest to the representatives of another lingua cultural community grows together with the development of the latter. The films provide the audience an opportunity not only to embrace the atmosphere of modern life of that or another country but also to get acquainted with its cultural features and traditions. The present paper discusses the study conducted in one of Kazakhstani universities (Suleyman Demirel University) aiming at investigating awareness of pre-service teachers of the variations in verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors of Kazakhs and Americans through the means of original and translated film discourse on an example of one of the latest movies The Amazing Spider Man. The results of the study showed that the majority of the pre-service teachers are aware of the differences in communicative culture, both verbal and nonverbal of Kazakhs and Americans.