Development of cultural intelligence of future technical specialists in the process of learning a foreign language
Keywords:
cultural intelligence, university students, foreign language, audiovisual translationSynopsis
In today's globalized world, more and more people work remotely using digital technologies, often in multinational teams. There is also an increase in cross-border migration of foreign students studying at universities outside their country. These trends emphasize the importance of possessing the so-called cultural intelligence as a predictor of effective online and offline interaction in multicultural groups. The four-factor model of cultural intelligence, the formation of which is the task of modern universities, includes metacognitive, cognitive, motivational and behavioral components. In the conditions of a technical institution of higher education, the development of these components should be integrated into the process of learning foreign languages through the close relationship between languages and cultures, and carried out by both traditional and digital methods, ensuring the multimodality of modern education. Among digital methods, the method of audiovisual translation stands out for its potential in teaching languages and cultures, combining acoustic and visual channels, which, together with verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication, significantly affect the assimilation of linguistic and extralinguistic material.
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Copyright (c) 2026 Nataliia Saienko, Anastasiia Ptushka, Svitlana Vorobyova, Svitlana Melnyk, Olena Nosyryeva
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Saienko, N., Ptushka, A., Vorobyova, S., Melnyk, S., & Nosyryeva, O. (2026). Development of cultural intelligence of future technical specialists in the process of learning a foreign language. In N. Morhunova, I. Levchenko, & A. Kholodov (Eds.), PSYCHOLOGICAL-PEDAGOGICAL AND LINGUODIDACTIC PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF SOCIETY DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION (pp. 20–37). Kharkiv: TECHNOLOGY CENTER PC. https://doi.org/10.15587/978-617-8360-24-5.ch2
