Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication in a Foreign Language to Students of Different Specialities

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of teaching cross-cultural communication in a foreign language to students of non-linguistic specialities. The necessity of reorienting the targets of education students of foreign language on the process of formation the cross-cultural competence in daily and professional life with the orientation on the result of this way of communication with representatives of diverse cultures is considered. The frame of reference of effective communication appears to be its productivity and development of cross-cultural competence. To form cross-cultural communication skills it is necessary to develop cultural susceptibility based on knowledge of communicators’ realities, which are the foundation of verbal communication. The author views the patterns of implementation of crosscultural communication as the unique cultural phenomenon. The modern technology as a combination of considerable means for achieving of creative target: optimization of communicative patterns of students who participate in cross-cultural interaction is examined. Special attention is paid to developing of the ability to recognize the strategies of communicational behavior, linguistic and cultural features of different cultural representatives, learning of background knowledge in specific professional context, objective methods of selection of cultural component of a word meaning.