General Soft Skills and Sub-competencies Developing Plurilingual Intercultural Competence by Students´ Self-Reflective Understanding

• Authors: Erich Petlák , Jana Birova

Abstracts

EN

Aim. The research presents a division of soft skills important for better socialising and being. Methods. The main method was a questionnaire survey completed by 98 pupils in the 3rd year of the mentioned schools. Results. We briefly describe the findings of the self-reflective evaluations of the students of two high schools and how they perceive and appreciate their personality in terms of soft skills. We mainly focused on social and personality skills from several areas and divisions of soft skills. Conclusion. Education must pay more consistent attention to the development of these skills because it is soft skills and their use in life that will be key not only for the advancement of the individual but for the advancement of the entire society. Based on our findings from the questionnaire, we make some important recommendations for the students.

Keywords

EN

soft skills; competencies; pupils; students; social existence; plurilingual intercultural competence

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 257-267

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Erich Petlák

• Faculty of Education, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Hrabovská cesta 1A, 034 01 Ružomberokm, Slovakia

• https://orcid.org/0000000279669924

author

Jana Birova

• Faculty of Education, Department of French Language and Literature, Charles University in Prague, Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39 Praha 1, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000000333787009

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs2023.2.257.267

Biblioteka Nauki

18769171