The Role of Language in Intercultural Communication

Tatiana Seregina,Svetlana Zubanova,Viktor Druzhinin,Guzalia Shagivaleeva

doi:10.20896/saci.v7i3.524

Abstract

Intercultural dialogue as a critical component of modern society should contribute to the self-identification of a person in the cultural space. This research aims to demonstrate the importance of multiculturalism— learning a second language in the Russian system of higher education. To accomplish the research objectives, 78 students were recruited at Tula State University, 158 students at Kuban State University and 152 technical students at Moscow Aviation Institute. Analysing and comparing experiments on learning a second language, the findings determine the effective methods and forms of teaching. In doing so, the research foregrounds some forms of effective teaching and indicates the ways to achieve them. In other words, the findings made it possible to identify the effective strategies for teaching a foreign language both in local and global level.

Highlights

The pace of modern globalisation has led to a consensus of goals for the world community, and among them, the accomplishment of effective development of intercultural communicative competence remains paramount (Abisheva et al, 2019)
In this paper the authors adhere to the definition of globalisation as a process fueled by and resulting in increasing cross- border flows of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture (Oliver, 2017)
This research experiment was conducted at Tula State University amongst different groups: one group of freshers and two groups of juniors

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Introduction

The pace of modern globalisation has led to a consensus of goals for the world community, and among them, the accomplishment of effective development of intercultural communicative competence remains paramount (Abisheva et al, 2019). Foreign language learning is a major paradigm and a key to the effective, high-quality formation of skills in intercultural dialogue (Al Jarrah, 2019). Integration processes have become an important part of the modern globalised world. In this paper the authors adhere to the definition of globalisation as a process fueled by and resulting in increasing cross- border flows of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture (Oliver, 2017). According to the convergence principle, contemporary globalisation is westernisation or Americanisation writ large, a fulfilment in instalments of the classical imperial and the modernisation theses (Pieterse, 2019; Nikolaeva et al, 2018)

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