206 – Developing intercultural competencies and soft skills through transmedia co-creation
Olha Demydenko
Annotation

The course is aimed at deepening understanding and knowledge of various linguistic cultures, efficiently communicating in various digital environments with the representatives of different cultures applying various tools and strategies, as well as learning rules of international etiquette and communicative behavioral patterns, thus demonstrating a high level of intercultural communicative competence in a digital intercultural environment. The course is focused on the typological characteristics of cultures, linguocultural types, intercultural communication styles, and the standard communicative behavioral patterns in situations of cross-cultural interaction. The specificity of intercultural project activity and application of the digital tools in the international project activity as well as the projects aimed at collaborative online learning will be considered.

Objectives

Upon finishing the course, the students will be able: to improve their communicative and intercultural competencies of the students; to evaluate and critically assess social, personal, and professional problems in situations of digital intercultural communication and efficiently solve them; to find the optimal ways for efficient professional and project cooperation and teamwork with the representatives of different cultures in the digital environments; to efficiently apply expressive, emotional, logical, and other linguistic tools to achieve the desired pragmatic effect and organization of successful intercultural communication and cooperation in various digital environments; to preserve the norms of international etiquette and understand the behavioral patterns of the representatives of various linguistic cultures to develop linguocreative thinking to realize communicative strategies in unusual situations of cross-cultural interactions.

Keywords
Intercultural communication, linguocultural type, communicative behavioural patterns,
Date of Creation
01.11.2024
Duration
30 hours
Language
English
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ISBN
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