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Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Volume 13. Number 4 December 2022 Pp.523-538
The article substantiates the importance of forming prospective English teachers’ cross-cultural competence. Nowadays, education focuses on cooperation and establishing cross-cultural relations between the representatives of diverse cultural societies. Therefore, it concentrates on forming a personality capable of absorbing and reproducing verbal and non-verbal information during dialogical communication with foreign negotiators. This paper aims to validate the category “cross-cultural competence of a prospective English teacher,” develop its structure and experimentally verify its effectiveness. The study establishes that cross-cultural competence covers linguistic, sociocultural, activity, and axiologically-emotive components. The authors used the following theoretical research methods: analysis of philosophical, lingua didactic literature and scientific studies, synthesis, comparison, concretization; empiric methods: questionnaire-diagnostic (survey, testing, summative assessment, interview); analysis of speech activity products (spoken replies); lecture attendance and analysis; pedagogical experiment; methods of statistical treatment and experimental results analysis. The research on the training peculiarities of future English teachers based on cross-cultural grounds allowed us to conclude that the experimentally-verified methodology is effective. The practical data analysis points out the rise of forming cross-cultural competence levels in the experimental group. The reason is the cultural enrichment of linguistic material and the revelation of contrastive aspects.
Bakum, Z., Tkachivska, M., Palchykova, O., Dyrda, I., & Kostiuk, S. (2022). Formation of Cross-cultural Competence
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Zinaida Bakum is a Doctor of Science, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Her professional interests include applied linguistics and a cross-cultural approach to teaching languages. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7639-8383
Mariya Tkachivska is a Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her academic interests include translation studies, language semantics, and comparative studies. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-9156
Oleksandra Palchykova is a Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Her main areas of interest include methods of teaching foreign languages, cross-cultural Language Pedagogy, and intercultural communication. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3275-9399
Iryna Dyrda is a Ph.D., Senior lecturer of the Department of English Philology at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Her scientific interests include the specifics of intercultural communication while studying foreign languages and the issues of tolerance and stereotypes in the context of polyculture interaction. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3145-7428
Svitlana Kostiuk, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at Kryvyi Rih National University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Her academic interests include methods of teaching languages and intercultural competence. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-4483