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Influence of Sociocultural Context on Language Learning in Foreign Countries
Pazyura, Natalia
Comparative Professional Pedagogy, v6 n2 p14-19 Jun 2016
Professional foreign language training is offered to cultivate the ability to master cross-cultural communication in the sphere of future professional activity. By means of intercultural competence of foreign language we are raising professional competence, too. In countries where English is the native language, it is taught to speakers of other languages as an additional language to enable them to participate in all spheres of life of that country. In many countries where it is an official language and language of instruction, as most communication outside school is in the local languages it is taught as language to learn other disciplines. These are two contrasting contexts for enhancing the English language skills. In both settings there are concerns about students' difficulties in developing adequate English proficiency to successfully learn content through that language. This paper analyzes the influence of sociocultural factors on the students' motivation to learn English in different countries, reveals main problems and difficulties in oral English teaching practice, illustrates the relationship between oral English teaching and cross-cultural communication competence. On the one hand, cross-cultural communication plays an essential role in oral English teaching; besides, oral English teaching promotes cross-cultural communication competence. On the other hand, in some countries English is not the prerequisite of future successful career. But anyway the author insists on consistency of English teaching concept with that of the world. Improving the students' cross-cultural oral communication ability is impossible without laying equal stress on cross-cultural communication competence and oral English teaching.
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Cultural Influences, Social Influences, Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Language Proficiency
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