Peculiarities of Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Comparative Study in Russia and USA

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Maral Nurtazina
Kuandyk Kulmanov
Akdana Alimova
Gulden Murzabekova

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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.

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Nurtazina, M., Kulmanov, K., Alimova, A., & Murzabekova, G. (2016). Peculiarities of Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Comparative Study in Russia and USA. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(5). Retrieved from https://un-pub.eu/ojs/index.php/pntsbs/article/view/1114 (Original work published January 12, 2017)
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