DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE THROUGH INDEPENDENT WORK: PEDAGOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES
Abstract
The article examines how independent work contributes to both psychological and pedagogic development in regards to students' intercultural communication competence within higher education. Student's intercultural communication competence are considered a multi-dimensional ability which includes open-mindedness, cultural knowledge, empathy, reflective self-regulation, critical cultural awareness and interactional competences. The study draws upon Byram's model of intercultural communicative competence, Deardorff's process model of intercultural competence, Zimmerman's self-regulated learning model and Vygotsky's sociocultural model for scaffolding.
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