1. List and Summarize the 4 Building Blocks of Intercultural Communication relating to dialectics.
1.1. Culture
1.2. Communication
1.3. Context
1.4. Power
2. Discuss Influence of the Linguo-Professional Approach on Developing Intercultural Communication Competences.
2.1. Relations between teachers and students are based on partnership, mutual communication is aimed at reaching a common goal.
2.2. The process of intercultural communication has an "open" character and id focused on goals, motives and interests of each student, as well, as the whole group, and what is more- on the teacher's personality and professional activity style.
3. Define Approaches to Intercultural Communication.
3.1. The social science approach
3.1.1. based on the assumptions that human behavior is predictable and that there is a describable extremal reality.
3.2. The interpretive approach
3.2.1. human behaviors are unpredietable and creative
3.3. The critical approach
3.3.1. subjective and focuses on the importance of studying the context in which communication occurs
3.4. The dialectical approach
3.4.1. Cultural-Individual
3.4.1.1. communication is both cultural and individual.
3.4.1.2. All people share some communication patterns with members of groups to which they belong.
3.4.1.3. At the same time, all people also have unique individual communication patterns that are idiosyncratic.
3.4.2. Personal-contextual
3.4.2.1. the relationship between the social roles influences how people interact with our communication patterns on the personal level.
3.4.3. Differences-similiarities
3.4.3.1. People are simultaneously both similar to and different from one another in many ways.
3.4.4. Static-dynamic
3.4.4.1. static - staying in one place without moving, or not changing for a long time
3.4.5. History/past-present/future
3.4.5.1. refers to the need to be aware of both present conditions and historical influences as they affect intercultural communication
3.4.6. Privilege-disadvantage
3.4.6.1. brings together the strengths of the social science, critical and interpretive approaches to studying intercultural communication.
3.4.7. acknowledges the value of the social science, critical and interpretive approaches,requires that we do not limit ourselves to the perspective provided by one pf these approaches.