Overcoming Barriers in Intercultural Communication: A Case Study on Agricultural Idioms in English, Ukrainian and Chinese

Abstract

The paper deals with the case study, focused on exploring certain problems in intercultural communication of Ukrainian and Chinese students in the academic environment of Sumy National Agrarian University. The participants of the ethnographic-linguistic stage of the experiment learned, interpreted and compared the phraseological funds of the Chinese, Ukrainian and English languages, displaying the conceptual sphere “Agriculture”, in order to find out similarities and divarications in the outlook of people, engaged in agricultural production, as well as the perception of agricultural sphere in these cultural-ethnic communities. The qualitative stage of the experiment was conducted to discover the stereotypes about the representatives of other nations, which the informants had. It was revealed that learning idioms and participation in the experiment helped students overcome the stereotypes and improve the intercultural interaction amid academic groups. It was concluded that the students, who learned the target language idioms, belonging to the conceptual sphere “Agriculture”, gained knowledge of the geographical and economic conditions, moral values and traditions of the target language native speakers, became aware of the analogies in their own background. Thus, the participants realised that they could eliminate obstacles that impeded intercultural communication by mastering culturally marked target language material concerning the sphere of their future professional activity.

The Potential of Caricatures in Forming Oral Production Competence of Pre-Service English Teachers

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Role of Resistance to Innovation, Lack of Intercultural Communication, and Student Interest on the Student Demotivation Results Towards the English Education System

“…Globalization urges the students to pursue higher studies in developed economies in order to learn advanced education tools to compete in the world. One of the common barriers faced by countries having not English as their native language is communication (Fomenko et al, 2020;Gardner, 2020). Thus, the students approach the local linguistic schools.…”

“…This study addresses some gaps that exist in the literature like (1) being one of the important topics like English education system and capital and individual performance although researched although but still not reached its peak, (2) Fomenko et al (2020) investigated the barrier of intercultural communication, whereas the present student has employed number of variables like resistance to innovation, students lack of interest, students demotivation and English language and check the model in Chinese educational institutions, (3) Badrkoohi (2018) investigated the association between demotivation and intercultural communication, whereas this study adds the variable and also checks the mediation effect in Chinese perspective, (4) Saeed et al (2018) worked on the students interest factors, whereas this study adds the variables like resistance to innovation, students demotivation, students demotivation, and English language and checks the model with new data set; this study checks the model in Chinese perspective with new data set, (5) Kusdemir and Bulut (2018) worked on the student motivations, whereas this study takes the students' demotivation and tests the model in Chinese educational instructions, and (6) a study by Schröer (2021) also examined the innovation role on the education system and suggested that the upcoming articles should add other factors to predict education system, and this article uses the resistant to innovation and lack of intercultural communication to predict the English education system. The significances of this study are as follows: (1) it highlights the importance of intercultural communication and education system in countries where the native language is not English like Chinese, (2) helps professional to revamp their policies for the betterment of linguistic education like English in China, and (3) helps the researchers to identify the linguistic importance for any country not having English as their mother language.…”

Problems and perspectives of sustainable trade development in China under the one belt one road initiative

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