Best Practices of Fostering Undergraduates’ Cross-Cultural Competence Involving Training Them in Foreign Languages: Systemic Review
Oleh Nozhovnik
,
Tetiana Harbuza
,
Hanna Starosta
,
Yuliia Radchenko
,
Oleh Zatserkovnyi
The purpose of the study was to identify and categorise the criteria-specified instructional approaches to fostering undergraduates’ cross-cultu.
- Pub. date: November 15, 2022
- Pages: 655-668
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The purpose of the study was to identify and categorise the criteria-specified instructional approaches to fostering undergraduates’ cross-cultural skills involving training them in foreign languages and to evaluate their effectiveness and feasibility. It was a systemic review of the effectiveness type. The descriptive content analysis was used as a methodology within the study to analyse the relevant short-listed sources. The triangular assessment method (TAM) was applied by instructors from Ukraine to rate each approach’s/programme/course’s potential effectiveness and/or feasibility for the context of higher education in Ukraine. This review identified potentially effective and feasible approaches/programmes/courses that can be converged to produce more efficient instructional models for fostering undergraduates’ cross-cultural skills. The selected approaches or courses or programmes could be categorised as technology-driven approaches, approaches based on classroom activities or using specific instruction models, psychological effect-driven approaches, and combined or converged approaches. The use of technology-driven approaches seems to be the emerging instructional trend specifically in training students’ cross-cultural skills.
Keywords: Cross-cultural competence, foreign languages training, higher education, instructional approaches, systemic review.
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