On Problems of Intercultural Dialogue among Culturally Diverse Students

Abstract

Lessons of a foreign language are primarily designed to establish and develop communicative competences in the target language, but they are also a good opportunity to develop social, personal, interpersonal and intercultural skills. As people are characterized by cognitive complexity perceive the world in a multivariate way, the author of the research focuses her attention to students’ intercultural awareness because it is the cognitive dimension of intercultural communication competence and it refers to a person's ability to understand similarities and differences of others’ cultures.

Cuvinte-cheie: conştiinţă culturală, şoc cultural, elemente culturale, comunicare interculturală, competenţe interculturale, conştiinţa de sine, stereotipizare

REZUMAT

Lecţiile de limbă străină sunt concepute, în primul rând, pentru a forma şi dezvolta competenţe comunicative în limba-ţintă. Totodată, ele permit de a dezvolta abilităţi sociale, personale, interpersonale şi interculturale. Întrucât la indivizii umani se înregistrează complexitate în activitatea de cunoaştere şi ei percep variat realitatea, ne propunem să cercetăm  „conştientizarea" interculturală la elevi, deoarece aceasta este dimensiunea cognitivă a competenţei de comunicare interculturală, care se referă la capacitatea unei persoane de a înţelege asemănările şi deosebirile dintre culturi.

LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION

English (main text and corpus)

UDC: 811.111(072.8):008

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Received: February 1, 2015 | Reviewed: February 13, 2015 | Accepted for publication: February 20, 2015

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