| Transcultural communicative competence components |
Transcultural knowledge and skills |
| Cognitive component |
- Knowledge of the nature of linguistic and cultural diversification, the English language global spread, its pluricentricity, the specificity of the multilingual nature of present day communication;- Knowledge of distinctive culturally-determined linguistic characteristics of world englishes;- Knowledge of universal and local levels: basic knowledge of distinctive characteristics of one’s local English variety and others;- Knowledge of one’s local culture and other world’s historical-cultural regions’ distinctive characteristics- Knowledge of one’s local culture influence on communication with the representatives of other cultures as well as influence of other cultures on one’s verbal and non-verbal behavior. |
| Operational component |
- To navigate in the English language global varieties, the ability to identify and distinguish them;- to choose and implement required negotiation-of-meaning strategies, such as envoicing, recontextualization, reciprocal and collaborative strategies, and entextualization;- To prevent, mediate, and resolve transcultural conflicts for differences reconciliation. |
| Axiological component |
- Awareness of the value of cultural and linguistic diversification;- Recognition of the equal status of English language varieties;- Acceptance of and tolerance to differences;- Detachment from the borders of one’s own mindset;- Recognition of limitedness, one-dimensionality, relativity of any viewpoint; - Recognition of the admissibility of the existence of other mindsets without abandoning one’s own, but developing its multidimensionality. |
