Cross-cultural Communicative Competence Research Articles

The Cultivation of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Business English Teaching

The Cultivation of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Business English Teaching

Enhancing Business Students’ Cross-Cultural Skills

Considering the present-day international context, with the increasing workforce mobility and the global exchange of knowledge and best practices, most companies expect their workers to be able to communicate effectively across cultures. Thus, since cross-cultural competence in today’s multicultural globalised world is an absolute prerequisite, we argue that students – as candidates in the global job market – need to acquire not only linguistic skills, but also cross-cultural competence. Consequently, drawing on a number of theories put forward by Melanie Moll (2012), Geert Hofstede (1980, 1991), E.T. Hall (1976), or Paul Verluyten (1999), this paper will look into the cultural frameworks that account for people’s behaviour, with a view to identify the students’ perception of the cultural issues likely to occur in cross-cultural encounters. More precisely, we will explore ways in which we can build and expand the students’ intercultural awareness and cross-cultural communicative competence, with a focus on the students enrolled at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, within the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.

On Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence in College English Teaching

It is an important part of improving college students’ comprehensive quality to cultivate cross-cultural communicative competence and it should be prioritized in college English teaching. Only with communicative competence can students effectively communicate and convey messages with others in English. This paper introduces cross-cultural communication and points out problems in it among non-English major students. It finally put forward some ways to improve their communicative competence.

АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНАЯ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНАЯ ПРОГРАММА: ИННОВАЦИОННЫЙ ПОДХОД К СОЗДАНИЮ ВОСТРЕБОВАННЫХ СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ

Theoretically analyzed the difficulties and contradictions in education of modern specialists demanded in the sphere of international business. In response to extra-volatile business environment a new Master’s degree twoyear educational program was implemented in IBS RANEPA. MSc. “International management” Program is taught completely in English by international faculty for Russian and foreign students. It is aimed at development of professional and soft skills of modern specialists. It gives knowledge and practice to develop students’ crosscultural communicative competence. The program has become a basis of creating international teams of businessmen prepared to implement joint projects on emerging and developed markets.

Особенности формирования межкультурной коммуникативной компетенции младших школьников во внеурочной проектной деятельности при использовании аутентичных материалов

The research objective is to identify difficulties while forming junior pupils’ crosscultural communicative competence and to develop methodological recommendations on the formation of junior pupils’ crosscultural communicative competence in extracurricular project activity with the use of authentic materials. The authors consider specificity of forming crosscultural communicative competence at the early stage of foreign language teaching and justify the necessity to use authentic materials while developing crosscultural communicative competence. Scientific originality of the paper lies in identifying the following basic difficulties while forming junior pupils’ crosscultural communicative competence: semantization of non-equivalent vocabulary, pupils’ insufficient knowledge of domestic realia, low motivation for studying a foreign language, limited vocabulary, lack of linguistic environment in extracurricular activity. Theoretical and practical study allowed the authors to develop methodological recommendations for overcoming possible difficulties while forming crosscultural communicative competence in extracurricular project activity with the use of authentic materials.

Тексты массмедиа как средство формирования межкультурной коммуникативной компетенции иностранных студентов

The research objective includes developing methodology to work with mass media texts within the framework of a profile discipline, a basis for the formation of future crosscultural communication specialists’ professional skills and abilities. The article is written within the problematics of teaching Russian to foreign students with a focus on forming their crosscultural communicative competence. Scientific originality of the paper includes development of methodological recommendations on working with authentic materials with the regional component that broaden the framework of the course program and help students to prepare for further studies within their area of training. In conclusion, the author describes an algorithm of working with texts, substantiates cognitive and linguo-didactic value of news messages.

A Study on the Combination of Intercultural Communication and Tourism English Education

With the success of a series of grand events in China, the demand for tourism talents has gradually changed from a purely professional skills type to a compound type with an international perspective, cross-cultural awareness and ability. Each tourism college and university also needs to follow this -Changes to strengthen the cultivation of students' comprehensive ability. Recently, the basic English of colleges emphasized the goal of "cultivation of intercultural communication skills" in the outline, and for tourism majors with strong foreign affairs, the cultivation of intercultural communication skills should also be put it on the agenda. The teaching of tourism English courses has played an important role in the cultivation of its ability, and the teaching of tourism English courses is also facing reforms. How to train students to be advanced with both professional tourism knowledge, international awareness and strong communication skills? Talents have become the focus of reform. Therefore, the author develops the theory of cross-cultural communicative competence, clarifies the basis and principles for developing cross-cultural communicative competence in tourism English teaching, and builds on the elements of cross-cultural communicative competence of authoritative experts to construct a suitable for tourism.

Pecularities of use of authentic materials in efl classroom

The article is devoted to a problem of using authentic materials in the process of foreign language teaching in general and at University of tourism in particular. The use of authentic materials is considered as one of the basic requirements of communicative approach, the specific aim of which is to make language learning process as close as possible to real life and real communication, as well as a necessary condition for the formation of cultural awareness and cross-cultural communicative competence, which is very important for tourism students. The article presents specific arguments of the necessity to include authentic foreign language content into the learning process, the specificity of which cannot be reproduced in any other "artificial" way. Moreover, peculiarities of use of authentic materials at University of tourism were investigated and discussed. It is concluded that althoughauthentic materials may contain complex grammatical structures and difficult vocabulary, they bringreal-life situations into classrooms and help teachers and students achieve their goals in the process of teaching and learning foreign languages.

Formation of cross-cultural communicative competence of students in the process of teaching Chinese in higher educational institutions

Formation of cross-cultural communicative competence of students in the process of teaching Chinese in higher educational institutions

Program for cross-cultural communicative competence improvement

The development of the international market intensifies communication which increases the importance of their rational organization, as well as cross-cultural competence of participants in such interactions. The article provides a definition of cross-cultural competence. There are described the types of communicative audience of the company. It is defined a set of organizational and methodological support for programs to improve cross-cultural communication managers of the international company.

Culture-Focused Teaching of Language and Translation

This article considers certain aspects of achieving cross-cultural communicative competence by university students through culture-oriented studies of English. It describes the principles of culture-focused tuition and their implementation in the development of teaching materials using the example of a series of practical English textbooks for future linguists and, specifically, translators developed at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Various forms of class work and self-supervised student work are discussed which ensure students take an active role in the tuition process via team work and individual work, as well as the development of responsibility for their own tuition, and the build-up of skills for self-supervised work. Rigorous selection and use of authentic, up-to-date, high-quality verbal and audio-visual material is described as an essential component of creating teaching resources. Language resources should be not only authentic: they must reflect the contemporary state of the English language, focusing on typical usage and differences between variations of the English language. The article describes such assessment from the points of view of the style of texts in terms of grammatical correctness, modern or obsolete vocabulary, typical or untypical usage, stylistic colouring, the number and quality of stylistic devices and other such criteria. The article also reviews the progress of cognitive studies in linguistics and their relevance for, and impact on, the methodology of language teaching. It discusses recent achievements in cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics as the basis for culture-focused tuition strategies, aimed at the development of cross-cultural communicative competence, which must be understood as a conscious and pro-active mastering by students of certain communicative strategies and tactics of verbal behaviour in a foreign language environment.

Understanding The Competencies As Global Citizen

The industrial revolution is a reality that must be faced by every country. This condition hasan impact on increasing interdependence between country located in an area in the form ofcooperation in various fields. Industrial revolution gives an essential challenge to improvethe quality of resources human power that can establish cross-cultural interactions to beable to address every opportunity of good cooperation. One component that needs to bepossessed by human resources in the era of the industrial revolution, especially the younggeneration of Indonesia is the cross-cultural communication competence with knowledge,understanding, self-confidence and cultural identity through the experience of interactingwith individuals from different cultural backgrounds. The young generation of Indonesianeeds to build a global mindset and play an active role in building harmonious cooperationin achieving the agenda of the industrial revolution. This phenomenon is essential so thatIndonesia's human resources are not just spectators, but can determine the success of theempowered nation competitiveness. This study aims to analyse affective, cognitive andconative elements in forming cross-cultural communication competencies. This researchalso examines the influence of the dimensions of cross-cultural communication and attitudestowards global citizenship towards the intention to work together across cultures. Theresearch sample was taken using a purposive sampling method. Data were collected usingsurvey methods with questionnaire techniques. Respondents in this study were students atthree universities in Central Java.

Формирование межкультурной коммуникативной компетенции: профессионально ориентированный подход

Формирование межкультурной коммуникативной компетенции: профессионально ориентированный подход

Assessing the impact of cross-cultural communication competence on expatriate business operations in multinational corporations of a Sub-Saharan African context

This study investigated the impact of cross-cultural communication competence (CCC) on expatriates’ work outcomes in emerging economies. Using a convergent parallel design methodology of data collection comprising an in-depth face-to-face interview with 21 expatriate executives, and a quantitative survey of 204 expatriates in various subsidiaries in Ghana, a structural equation modeling and a content analysis were the basis of data analysis. Findings suggest that host country culture is related to CCC. Additionally, expatriates’ CCC is influenced by multicultural team effectiveness and their interpersonal skills. The work recommends training of expatriates in cross-cultural communication for subsidiary assignments.

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCY AMONG MANAGERS: A STUDY ON ORGANIZATIONS IN MALAYSIA

Purpose: This study aims to highlight the necessary competencies among the middle level managers, especially the cross-cultural communication competency. This study was designed to investigate the cross-cultural communication competencies in organizations through the focus group conducted among the senior management levels. Methodology: This study applied the beauty of qualitative research by conducting a focus group of ten participants, where all of them were from various industries in Malaysia. They are well mixed of women and men Senior Managers level and above, where the minimum level of them was the Director, General Manager, and Vice President of private enterprises. Data from the focus group discussion was analyzed and presented in the findings in this article. Results: The findings of this paper proven the need of cross-cultural communication competency currently in Malaysia through the ten (10) participants involved in the focus group research and ten (10) cases were presented in this article. Different participant provided different findings however, the data summarization was presented in the table in results. Majority concluded that employees nowadays are conscious competence and agreed that cross-cultural communication is the most crucial competency needed by all organization today. Implications: This should provide several ideas to the senior management levels in incorporating this aspect into their management training programmes or other activities in all organizations. Further studies could be expanded through the methodology used. Novelty of Study: As past research concentrated more on the leadership and other management competencies, this study was looking at the specific issue of cross-cultural communication competencies among these employees in organizations. With the peculiar scenario in Malaysia, this paper contributed to the management field as a reference for the higher and middle level managers.

Competence approach to foreign languages teaching of future specialists in Belarus

<p>Artykuł zawiera krótki przegląd kompetencyjnie zorientowanego podejścia do nauczania języków obcych oraz jego podstawowych zasad. Komunikacyjne ukierunkowanie na nauczanie języków obcych jest podstawową zasadą współczesnych programów nauczania. W opracowaniu przedstawiono analizę i wyjaśnienie pojęć „fachowość” oraz „kompetencja”, ustalono integralną strukturę i treść językowej komunikacyjnej kompetencji, uzasadniono także wybór kluczowych kompetencji niezbędnych dla każdego oraz funkcjonalnie skierowanych kompetencji, które w swojej jedności zapewniają sukces przy adaptacji i samorealizacji młodego specjalisty we współczesnym dynamicznym świecie. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono rozwojowi międzykulturowej komunikacyjnej kompetencji realizowanej przez różne rodzaje aktywności.</p>

Review of “A tutorial manual on the use of modern educational tools, methods and technologies for teaching foreign languages and cultures”

The publication presents a review of “A tutorial manual on the use of modern educational tools, methods and technologies for teaching foreign languages and cultures” written by Prof. Dr. Nataliia Maiier and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olga Ustymenko for Ukrainian Master’s students majoring in specialties 035 Philology and 014 Secondary Education. The content and structure of the reviewed work are analysed. The role of the manual under review in organising undergraduates’ autonomous work on mastering special elective disciplines of professional methodological training is emphasised. The assignment of the elective disciplines “Methodology of the use of educational materials for the formation of foreign language communication skills”, “Educational tools for training teachers of foreign languages and cultures”, and “Modern educational tools for teaching foreign languages and cultures at tertiary schools” is to foster the ability of pre-service university teachers of foreign languages and cultures to perform effectively their methodological activities on choosing, selecting, creating, and applying educational materials, tools, and technologies to develop cross-cultural professional communicative competence.

Contemporary investigations in teaching cross-cultural business communication to pre-service tourism specialists

The article analyses contemporary researches of teaching cross-cultural business communication to pre-service future tourism specialists. The readiness of prospective tourism specialists to provide efficient job activities presupposes their cross-cultural communicative competence development which implies their foreign language ability to communicate successfully with business partners and consumers of tourist services. Foreign languages for tourism purposes help not only to operate, persuade, make decisions, but also to create a favourable business atmosphere, understand other cultures and mentality of people. Nowadays, one of the important tasks is to get pre- service tourism specialists ready to communicate in foreign languages successfully and meet professional requirements. Prospective tourism specialists should be able to take part in seminars, fairs, exhibitions, business negotiations, conclude and contracts, issue professional documents, carry on business correspondence, speak over the telephone, socialise on the Internet, write summaries and CVs which involves direct and indirect cross-cultural business communication. The purpose of this paper is to review current problems of teaching foreign languages to pre-service tourism specialists for theoretical substantiating of the author’s conception of teaching English language cross-cultural business communication skills to students majoring in tourism. The analysis results showed timely character of this issue. The previous research experience and the author’s own study may become fundamentals for theoretical grounding the conception for building English language cross-cultural business communication skills of pre-service tourism specialists.

Problems of cross-cultural training of pre-service foreign language teachers

The article deals withtheoretical problems and practical tasks of cross-cultural training of Ukrainian foreign language student teachers majoring in specialty “014.02 Secondary Education” who should not only be ready for foreign language cross-cultural communication, but also be able to teach pupils and students this kind of communication in their future professional activities. The development of the cross-cultural education conception (aims, principles, content, tools), the theory of forming professionally oriented cross-cultural communicative competence, in particular its conceptualization (definition, content and structure, modeling, interconnections with other competences), and the main areas of implementation in curricula and course books of new generation are considered in this article as urgent tasks. It is suggested to differentiate general the cross-cultural communicative competence from the foreign language cross-cultural communicative competence. The first one is the final goal and the expected result of the complex cross-cultural training of a specialist, on condition that all disciplines are included in this process and the cross-cultural component of their content is singled out, and corresponding cross-disciplinary coordination is provided. The second one is primarily formed in the foreign language classroom. The important tasks are modelling in course books main aspects of cross-cultural communication and processes of forming cross-cultural competence as well as the problems associated with them. The examples of the tasks listed above are given in a series of four language course books “DU” written by a group of German and Ukrainian professors and researches (2009–2017). These course books are based on modern cognitive-communicative, action and personality oriented methodology and encompass cross-cultural, competency-based, reflexive and level approaches to teaching foreign languages and cultures.

ESP Curriculum for Non-English Majors: Taking GDUFS as an Example

This study, taking Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS hereafter) as an example, discusses how to develop an English for Specific Purposes (ESP hereafter) curriculum for non-English majors in the context of internationalized talents cultivation. It is argued that the design of an ESP curriculum should satisfy ontological needs of ESP in college English curriculum, needs of talents cultivation, students’ needs of ESP learning and so on. Based on modern foreign language teaching and learning principles, the ESP curriculum in GDUFS has been carried out successfully with ESP course design, teaching and assessment, textbooks development integrated together. The ESP curriculum has promoted students’ comprehensive English use, improved their cross-cultural communication competence and cultivated their critical thinking in the future professional fields.