Cross-cultural communication in aspect of teaching languages

Abstract

This article examines the training of foreign students in Russian through the prism of cross-cultural
communication. Furthermore, the article explores problems connected with cross-cultural communication connected, in particular, with the dynamics of the Flagship program being conducted at Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University. Research has shown that the main problems of language assimilation are
connected with phonetic, semantic and stylistic barriers. In this article the causes of barriers are named
and the features of perception of lexical and grammatical material by American students are brought to
the fore. Biographical particulars are given as experimental base. The results of such biographical particulars help to reveal the most frequent problems connected with cross-cultural barriers to the assimilation of a foreign language, among which there are phonetic problems, lack of knowledge of semantic
properties, and stylistic problems. We offer some methods of overcoming communicative hindrances
while taking into account particular student problems. In this article attention is also paid to the questions connected with the realization of cultural and background knowledge in the educational process.