THE ROLE OF ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES IN DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE
THE ROLE OF ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES IN DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Summary/Abstract: The given paper is aimed at tackling the on-going aspects of the culture of communication as an indicator of the individual’s general knowledge. This type of culture should be taught and generated during foreign language classes through verbal stereotypes typical of bearers of other cultures. The ability to identify and to appropriately react to the verbal stereotypes of the dialog partners allows the expert on intercultural communication to approach the communication act in its entire linguistic and content structure, and this will be in line with the cultural idiosyncrasies of the native speaker and will lead to a significant increase of the interactive power of the communication.Within the online learning of the intercultural communication, learners have started showing a growing interest in acquiring the culture elements of the country whose language they are learning, and in contrasting and comparing such elements with the cultural elements of their own country. Taking into account the given context, the language teacher should be ready to creatively integrate the most productive learning technologies into the online language courses, thus gaining future quality experts in intercultural communication within foreign language study programs run in universities. This is one of the most important current trends in learning foreign languages and intercultural communication.

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