Keyword: «межкультурная коммуникация»

The article suggests using translation contests as an instrument for multicultural competence formation for international students. The article deals with the objectives of the contest, peculiarities of its organization, and gives analysis of its perspectives for further motivation of foreign students to study foreign languages and cultures.

In the modern world intercultural communication can take different forms. The article provides evidence of the prospects of such type of intercultural communication as intercultural artistic communication, carried out through the poetic translation of a poetic work, and gives a comparative analysis of some existing translations of A. Blok's poem «Scythians» into English, which confirms the conclusions drawn.

The article considers the ways of interpreting smile as a component of nonverbal communication in cross-cultural interaction. The author explores the attitude to smile in the Western world, in Russian culture and in the countries of Eastern culture and gives analysis of the survey aimed at examining the attitude of Russian students to interpreting smile and its meaning as a cross-cultural phenomenon.

The article is devoted to the analysis of some barriers in business communication with representatives of Chinese culture. It shows that knowledge of barriers of intercultural communication can serve as a tool for improving the effectiveness of interaction between representatives of different cultures and reducing conflicts in business communication.

This article examines various challenges that a teacher may face while teaching a subject to students of different nationalities. It also provides arguments about how it is necessary to teach such students, what skills and competencies a teacher should have and what educational standards should be applied. Also, there’ve been mentioned various approaches to teaching students from different cultures.