Keyword: «cross-cultural communication»

The article analyses and compares the results of the linguocultural experiments held in 1998 and 2018 and highlights the factors influencing the language and cultural pictures of the world.

The article touches upon the issue of forming communicative competence while teaching foreign languages. The author describes the opportunities of realizing cross-cultural communication and modeling dialogue of cultures in a foreign language classroom, putting a special emphasis on the significance of using art materials in forming the worldview, the feeling of tolerance to cultural values of the target culture.

In today's world where electronic devices have become an integral part of people's lives ordinary letters and sending postcards are considered outdated. Meanwhile, there are thousands of fans of such a hobby as postcrossing throughout the world, in various countries. This project is designed to be able to receive postcards from all over the world, to meet and communicate with new people, and, of course, for an exciting leisure.

The article touches upon the issue of forming communicative competence while teaching foreign languages. The author describes the opportunities of realizing cross-cultural communication in a foreign language classroom, putting a special emphasis on the significance of using socio-cultural materials of region in forming the cultural identity, patriotism and love for the Motherland.

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.