THE CONTEXT FOR DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
THE CONTEXT FOR DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Summary/Abstract: For the appropriateness and the effectiveness of the interpersonal communication generally and of the intercultural communication especially language proficiency alone is inadequate, because such a process requires knowledge of the ways language and culture interact and of how this interaction operates across cultures. As well individuals as communities will need in this multicultural context on the one hand to relativize their cultural background and to develop very different mentalities and attitudes in order to adapt to the new communication situations, to understand and to cooperate with people from any continent, ethnic origin or culture, and on the other hand to redefine the process of foreign language teaching and learning. From this point of view the key component of the communicative act becomes the intercultural communicative competence. This contribution based on the data from an empirical investigation focuses on the factors which contribute to the determination of the context that facilitates the development and the training of the intercultural communicative competence in the educational process.

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