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Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
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SITUATIONS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AS A MEANS FOR DEVELOPING OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS, MAJORING IN “TOURISM” (BACHELOR DEGREE)

Guseva L.V. 1
1 Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistics University
The article is devoted to the English language teaching to the graduate students majoring in Tourism. Intercultural competence is named as one of the key competences of this major. To develop it professionally oriented situations of intercultural communication should be introduced in class. The author studies definitions of educational communicative situations, real communicative situations, professional communicative situations and defines main components of professionally oriented situations of intercultural communication which are necessary for intercultural competence development. Based on the undertaken research the author makes conclusions and singles out some criteria essential for professionally oriented situations of intercultural communication. They are: evocation stage, participants representing different ethnical/ cultural/ social/ religious groups; adequacy to the students’ level of knowledge and mastery; reflection stage; open-ended nature of the situation.