Keyword: «intercultural interaction»

The paper is devoted to the revelation and analysis of the peculiarities of the communicative tolerance during the intercultural interaction between Russian and Chinese students in the Komsomolsk-na-Amur universities. The authors highlight the major ways to develop communicative tolerance and means to improve it.

The author examines the educational potential of postcrossing, as well as the usage of the postcard exchange project in forming of the communicative competence. The process of intercultural communication is explained in the article with the help of participation in the project of the group of future teachers. It was noticed that the level of tolerance and the readiness for the effective communication increased as a result.

This article is of interest from a methodological point of view, since it examines the problem of the formation of skills in non-verbal foreign language communication in preparing students of a transport university for intercultural interaction. Researchers of intercultural communication note that misunderstandings, hindrances and failures in intercultural communication often give rise to culturally different discursive and socio-cultural phenomena. The author of the article believes that these phenomena can be overcome only with a purposeful study of communicative behavior and knowledge of non-verbal communication signals of representatives of other cultures. The urgency of this problem is due to the prevailing contradictions between the need of modern society for highly qualified specialists who are called upon not only to speak foreign languages, but also to resolve issues of interaction with representatives of different countries and cultures on the verbal and non-verbal levels and the real readiness of our students for intercultural communication. The relevance and social significance of this problem determined the choice of the topic «Formation of non-verbal communication skills in teaching intercultural interaction of students of a transport university». The purpose of the presented work is to determine the features of non-verbal communication and their use in teaching students intercultural interaction; to improve the quality of students' preparation for intercultural communication, taking into account non-verbal means of communication, using a set of developed exercises. In the course of the research, the following methods were used: general scientific – analytical (analysis of scientific literature on psychology, pedagogy, teaching methods of foreign language); pedagogical – observation and generalization of empirical material for preparing students for non-verbal foreign language communication. The article presents the taxonomy of non-verbal behavior and the interpretation of non-verbal communication signs in various cultures. As a result of the work done, the author of the article presents a developed set of exercises that can be used by teachers of a foreign language in practical classes to improve the students’ skills for intercultural interaction taking into account non-verbal means of communication.

The sociocultural competence and its role in intercultural interaction is analyzed. The author stresses the importance of the competence forming by translation training in the period of globalization. The results of the research of the foreign proper names and their translation into Russian are provided. The article is aimed to show and prove the necessity of the upgrading of the level of the sociocultural competence of humanitarian students.