Intercultural and Intracultural Diversity in Interdisciplinary Cloud-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching

Vita Hamaniuk, Iryna Selyshcheva

2021

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the development of intercultural competence, which is one of the key competences in foreign language education. The focus lies on examining the opportunities available to use inter- and intracultural differences as a material for developing intercultural competence. The theoretical foundations on which the research was conducted are analyzed: the essence of intercultural communication, the conditions of its smooth flow; the essence of intercultural competence, its constituents and the relations between them; the role of country studies (both the country of the target language and its own history) in the acquisition of background knowledge, the ability to compare cultures, to tolerate differences between them, and furthermore. Considering that the development of intercultural competence at a level that would ensure the effective implementation of intercultural communication is primarily due to the presence, in addition to language acquisition, of intercultural knowledge, perceptions of the rules of communicative behavior and the positive disposition of learners, an important element is the approaching of the target culture, the removal of prejudices about the “alien”. This can be achieved through the inclusion in the educational process of materials from the immediate environment of learners. For exemple, the theme “Foreigner in Ukraine” is used, in which work, on the one hand, reveals facts of the history some people in the European format, and on the other, the facts of the history of their own country, the history of their immediate surroundings, at the expense of which the story of “alien” is transferred to the personal sphere. The article also considers the possibilities of an interdisciplinary approach in foreign language teaching on a theoretical and practical level, proves the effectiveness of developing intercultural competence using the example of creating interdisciplinary connections between a foreign language and history. It is emphasized that in modern conditions, when the educational process has been transferred to a distance format, the creation of a cloud-oriented environment plays an important role, which on the one hand allows immersion in the language and on the other hand creates multiple opportunities, to include into the lesson relevant, authentic materials and a variety of actual information.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hamaniuk V. and Selyshcheva I. (2021). Intercultural and Intracultural Diversity in Interdisciplinary Cloud-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching. In Proceedings of the 2nd Myroslav I. Zhaldak Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET; ISBN 978-989-758-662-0, SciTePress, pages 781-793. DOI: 10.5220/0012067800003431

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aet21,
author={Vita Hamaniuk and Iryna Selyshcheva},
title={Intercultural and Intracultural Diversity in Interdisciplinary Cloud-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd Myroslav I. Zhaldak Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET},
year={2021},
pages={781-793},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012067800003431},
isbn={978-989-758-662-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd Myroslav I. Zhaldak Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET
TI - Intercultural and Intracultural Diversity in Interdisciplinary Cloud-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching
SN - 978-989-758-662-0
AU - Hamaniuk V.
AU - Selyshcheva I.
PY - 2021
SP - 781
EP - 793
DO - 10.5220/0012067800003431
PB - SciTePress