ALRJournal. 2021; 5(10): 30-33 | DOI: 10.14744/alrj.2021.40221

Cultural conditionality of the process of foreign-language perception, cogitation and activity

Nelly Savelyeva¹, Olga Pavlova², Natalija Pochitalkina², Yana Zhakupova³, Svetlana Batueva³, Oksana Gerasimova³, Surovtseva Svetlana², Nadezhda Alekhina², Pyrkova Tamara^1
1Department of Foreign Languages and Educational Technologies, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
²Department of Foreign Languages, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
³Department of Psychology, South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

All types of postgraduate education and advanced training in the field of intercultural communication offered by educational institutions in recent years are based on the idea of stimulating and ensuring comfortable interaction of people of different nationalities and cultures. The same wording applies to the numerous initiatives to support and stimulate intercultural cooperation, as well as the huge number of relevant publications, educational and training materials. Carefully thought out goals and objectives do not always ensure the achievement of the declared results necessary for the implementation of joint intercultural activities. Where the main goal is natural and comfortable interaction, on the contrary, stereotypes and prejudices increase, there is stiffness in communication between representatives of different cultures and nationalities, and tolerance does not always get realized at the desired level.

Keywords: culture, communication, personality, life world, intercultural communication, intercultural competence, perception, cogitation

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