The Structure-functional Model of Development of Students' Readiness for Intercultural Communication
Lyalya Gainullovna Yusupova *
Department of Foreign Languages and Business Communication, Ural State Mining University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Elena Petrovna Zheltova
Department of Foreign Languages, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The structure-functional model of development of students' readiness for intercultural communication is presented in this article. The short introductory paragraph is devoted to the definition of university students’ readiness to intercultural communication. Then the units of the developed model as well as the content of each unit are analyzed in detail, namely target, theoretic-methodological, organizational, conceptual, technological and result-estimated units. After that the components of development of readiness to intercultural communication are fully described: emotional, cognitive, motivation and value-based, process activity-based. In the following part of this paper the levels of development of students’ readiness to intercultural communication are considered in detail. The main conclusion of the article is that the authors have made an attempt to create the structure-functional model of the development of university students’ readiness for intercultural communication according to a stated objective of investigation.
Keywords: Intercultural communication, units of the structure-functional model, functions and principles of development of students’ readiness, various approaches, intercultural environment.