CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN THE COMMUNICATIVE STYLES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ROMANIA
CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN THE COMMUNICATIVE STYLES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Communicative style is one of the variables that visibly influence the process of interpersonal communication. In order to reach their communicative goals, speakers use the language strategically, some meanings being literally transmitted, and others just involved. The full understanding of the behaviour of participants in verbal interactions have to be based on the premise that they are delineated by the cultural context in which they take place. There is a progressive interaction between personal identity, group identity and cultural identity, the most complex particular case of social identity. The professional identity of the teacher is, ultimately, a social construction. The identity of the professional group overlaps self-identity in educational communities. The intercultural identity overlaps the group identity in the context of linking the educational curriculum and the teaching practices to the European recommendations, the obligation of all the Member States of the European Union on the one hand, and in the context of globalization and interconnectivity on the other. The case study regarding the communicative styles of primary school teachers was conducted in the second semester of 2015 - 2016 school year, in a school of Brașov. The supportive, self-centred and playful communicative behaviours differentiate the stylistic profiles of primary school teachers in the investigated educational community. The personalization of the relationship by promoting interactive patterns based on strategic behaviours that satisfy both fields of communication contributes to the construction of group identity.

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