Open AccessPeculiarities of Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Comparative Study in Russia and USA
Author(s) -
Марал Нуртазина,
Kuandyk Kulmanov,
Akdana Alimova,
Gulden Murzabekova
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new trends and issues proceedings on humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2547-8818
DOI - 10.18844/prosoc.v2i5.1114
Subject(s) - cross cultural communication , curriculum , cross cultural , information and communications technology , intercultural communication , cultural communication , pedagogy , cultural diversity , sociology , political science , psychology , communication , anthropology , law
This paper is dedicated to the comparative study of teaching cross-cultural communication in Kazakhstan. The project submits recommendation on further enhanced strategies that will help in the development of cross-cultural communication education in line with modern trends in curriculum issues. It concludes that for any meaningful advancement to be made in the education sector there must be a conscious, deliberate, purposeful, directional policy formulation of the implementation of the curriculum. The criteria of formation of critical thinking in students when teaching cross-cultural communication are considered here. Moreover, this paper analyses the problem of motivation of students to use information technology to search for specific information for the understanding of cross-cultural communication. Keywords: Cultural education; cross-cultural communication; information technology; comparative study; intercultural comptence.