TEACHING COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS TO HIGHER
SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
Vorontsova U. A.
Bryansk State Technical University
The paper is devoted to studying the problems of cross- cultural
communication in multicultural educational environment and sin-
gling out advanced methods of forming communicative skills among
contemporary higher school learners for successful intercultural in-
teraction. The article sheds light on forming a global mindset among
the learners as one of intercultural communication requirements; re-
veals language barriers arising in the process of communication;
conducts a survey of Bryansk State Technical University students
to find out what problems are most typical for cross- language com-
munication; analysis various means of forming learners’ communi-
cation competences. As a result of the study, the author has defined
the development of cross- language communication caused by the
real processes of the contemporary world and contributing to the
dialogue of cultures, revealed the importance of forming learners’
global mindset; identified the main language barriers arising in the
process of communication in multicultural educational environment;
shown the most effective means of forming students’ communica-
tion competences in the context of cross- cultural interaction.
Keywords: Multicultural environment, communication compe-
tences, communicative skills, language barriers, survey, students’
teaching.
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