Promoting Azerbaijani Students' Intercultural Competence through Distance Education of Foreign Languages

Autor/in	Imanova, Sevda
Titel	Promoting Azerbaijani Students' Intercultural Competence through Distance Education of Foreign Languages
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 12 (2021) 3, S.232-241 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Imanova, Sevda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Cultural Awareness; Communicative Competence (Languages); English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Teachers; College Faculty; Learning Motivation; Electronic Learning; Distance Education; Affordances; Barriers; Foreign Countries; Azerbaijan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Fakultät; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Ausland; Aserbaidschan
Abstract	The main aim of this study is to determine the advantages and disadvantages of distance teaching and promoting Intercultural Competence in learning foreign languages in the Azerbaijani higher education system. Nowadays the growing tendency of remote education proves that, education has become more reachable in comparison to the past decades. At the same time, distance education has brought new demands and regulations to the education system. The COVID-19 outbreak has necessitated the online teaching process resulting in specific problems, including the maintenance of interaction in online teaching. Thus, this study explores both benefits and drawbacks of teaching foreign languages through distance learning in Azerbaijan. In this research, a quantitative research method in the form of a survey has been utilized to explore the tendency of teaching intercultural competence in foreign language classes at universities. Finally, it may be concluded that distance education provides enormous opportunities to practice intercultural communicative competence by using modern information technologies and does not differ much from face-to-face learning. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01