The article examines the cross-cultural transferability of widely accepted cross-cultural assessment tool using research conducted in Ukraine - the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS), insights from the American and Ukrainian researchers who translated and adapted the instrument in Ukraine. Within the qualitative focus group study researchers look at the peculiarities of CQS perceptions by the Ukrainian audience sample and identify barriers of these perceptions, peculiarities of perceptions of citizens of Ukraine regarding cross-cultural interaction.
The article highlights the issues of future teachers’ training for an effective cross-cultural interaction and professional work in a multicultural society. The improvement and mass distribution of media, globalization and migration processes, which are characteristic for modern society, determine global trends in the development of education. According to the results of the theoretical analysis the interpretation of the key concepts, namely, the «multicultural competence» and its components, «cultural training», «cultural intelligence» is presented. The factors of formation of multicultural competence and cultural intelligence that allows its bearer to carry out cross-cultural communication effectively are analyzed. The analysis of scientific papers suggests the relevance and practical significance of the formation of a multicultural competence, because the globalization of higher education requires the ability to communicate effectively in a particular situation considering cultural characteristics. The aim of the article is to explore the formation of multicultural competence of the future teachers as a means of an effective cross-cultural interaction in the context of globalization of higher education. The study of theoretical works and everyday practice enabled to conclude the modernity of this idea. The goal of multicultural education is a consolidation of human resources, concepts and ideas, the absence of discrimination in education on any ground. A person with knowledge, with a high level of cultural tolerance, motivated to intercultural interaction and therefore the person who knows how to live successfully in different cultural environments, such a person is able not only to act as a mediator between them, but also to understand his/her native culture at a new level. Although as to the unconscious problems we can talk about different prejudices and stereotypes with regard to the representatives of other cultures, raising the level of anxiety in situations of cross-cultural interaction. Unified, generally accepted theory of multicultural education has not been developed yet, but most researchers refer to the important role of cultural diversity of an educational environment for personal and social development of future teachers, expanding the range of their educational opportunities. The prospects for further research are the development of specific methods of future teachers’ training and the formation of their multicultural competence.
The aim of this paper is to present selected issues connected with teaching culture at English lessons. One of its aims is to prove that increasing cultural awareness and promoting cross-cultural interaction through teaching British culture at primary school are important. Students who learn not only the language become competent learners. The language becomes more meaningful to them and they become more open to new cultures and situations.
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Le présent article a pour but de présenter l’importance du développement de la conscience culturelle des élèves et de la promotion des interactions interculturelles dans l’enseignement de la culture à l’école primaire. Pour que l’élève devienne un locuteur compétent d’une langue étrangère, il doit connaître la culture de ce pays. La conscience culturelle concerne surtout la manière dont les autres parlent et se comportent, ce qui est culturellement conditionné. Elle aide aussi les élèves à créer des généralisations sur la culture donnée et à acquérir des compétences indispensables pour situer et organiser les informations la concernant. De plus, grâce à l’enseignement de la culture, les élèves sont plus ouverts aux autres cultures et la langue étrangère devient plus vivante, leur intérêt augmente et il leur est plus facile de s’adapter aux situations nouvelles.
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Artykuł ma na celu zaprezentowanie, jak ważne jest rozwijanie świadomości kulturowej uczniów i promowanie interakcji międzykulturowych poprzez nauczanie kultury w szkole podstawowej. Aby uczeń mógł być kompetentnym rozmówcą drugiego języka, powinien mieć wiedzę o kulturze tego kraju. Dotyczy ona przede wszystkim sposobu mówienia i zachowywania się innych ludzi, które jest nacechowane kulturowo. Co więcej, poprzez nauczanie kultury uczniowie są bardziej otwarci na inne kultury, drugi język staje się dla nich bardziej żywy.
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