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Senior teacher Omarova G.M.
Senior teacher Musina M.K.
Almaty
Management University
Discourse as a means of
intercultural and communicative dialogue
Abstract
Modern world integration processes and the development
of international cooperation raise the motivation for learning foreign
languages. Therefore, foreign language learning is regarded as one of the
priority of education modernization in our country. Today permanent mastering
new knowledge and on their basis competences becomes a paramount condition of
preservation of qualification for the expert.
As the goal of the modern foreign language education it is considered
the formation of intercultural communicative competence, that is, the ability
and willingness to carry out real foreign dialogue with native speakers, as
well as introduction to the culture of the target language country, better
awareness of the culture of their own country, the ability to represent it in
the communication process.
Keywords: foreign language,
discursive elements, intercultural communicative competence, dialogic nature, discourse,
extra linguistic factors, typical speech cliché.
I.
Introduction
Discourse as a means of
intercultural and communicative dialogue
Modern world integration processes and the development
of international cooperation raise the motivation for learning foreign
languages. Therefore, foreign language learning is regarded as one of the
priority of education modernization in our country. Today permanent mastering
new knowledge and on their basis competences becomes a paramount condition of
preservation of qualification for the expert.
As the goal of the
modern foreign language education it is considered the formation of
intercultural communicative competence, that is, the ability and willingness to
carry out real foreign dialogue with native speakers, as well as introduction
to the culture of the target language country, better awareness of the culture
of their own country, the ability to represent it in the communication process [1,
p.45-46]. It is considered that human communication is the process of
information exchange, which has dialogic nature. In this case, if the
communication is characterized by monoculture resemblance to some extent prior
experience, when it comes to communicating in a foreign language, the greater
the differences between the languages and cultures and the harder
it is to use language as a means of intercultural communication.
The educational process should intensify existing
intellectual abilities of each student, knowledge and experience of the speech,
his emotions and moods, and to develop these personal settings. Therefore, it
is important to build the learning process so that the student solving these or
other communication tasks, felt the need and had the opportunity to realize
their own intentions [2, p.9].
To teach how to use language creatively is possible
only during active communication (interaction) of trainees in this language.
Therefore the ways of training directed first of all on assimilation of system
of language have to be replaced with the new, interactive forms of education
uniting the trained - subjects of educational process and giving to training
process really interactive character.
The
personal aligned nature of acquisition of a foreign language dictates need to
reinterpret as the training activity of a trainer, and activity, and a position
of the language training of learner on assimilation. The learner becomes the
main subject of the educational process. Training not only acts as a moderator,
creating incentives for the student to assimilate the contents of training - he
is an assistant organizer and communication in the target language.
Person-centered approach requires flexibility in setting goals, take into
account the personal interests of students, their individual characteristics
and thus creates the conditions for greater effectiveness of the training.
II. What is the nature of discourse in learning the English language?
Thus, learner-centered paradigm is the original
conceptual approach to education and training aimed at developing the student's
personality, his determination, self-realization and social adaptation.
Intercultural communication is a multicomponent phenomenon and its study
and modeling of discourse as its organizational form and communicative unit
plays an important role. One reason for the emergence of a new linguistic
notion of "discourse" in modern linguistics is an anthropocentric
approach, which includes the addition of linguistic extra linguistic (knowledge
of the world, opinions, strategies, and intentions), pragmatic, socio-cultural,
psychological, and other factors. In linguistics, in the knowledge of the
language before it was decided to focus on internal linguistic phenomena, such
as a word or a grammatical form, offer, text, etc., and external, i.e. extra
linguistic factors associated with a man and his needs, motives, goals and
expectations, i.e. social, psychological, personal, cultural, etc. side of
communication remained without proper attention. At this stage, the theory of
discourse is one of the rapidly developing areas of linguistics.
"Linguistics goes beyond the study of language and speech problems, and
communication problems with achieving the desired result are its object. But
the choice of a linguistic form depends on the context of the communicative
process, from of who, where and when to use the language, also taken into
account at the same age and social status of the participants. The discourse
has diverse and conflicting properties, characterized by a combination of many
interwoven events. A communicative
phenomenon that is in addition to the text of another extra linguistic factors
which must be taken into account such things as language-world picture,
concept, frame-based situations, etc. The subject of discourse, pursuing their
specific intentions, chooses its strategy of verbal behavior, and uses for this
specific discursive tactics. Language reflects the changes that occur in
society, science, culture and all other areas of human activity. At this stage,
the problem of formation and linguistic representation of the concept widely
studied in linguistic science.
Discourse is a multi-valued concept (Wed French.
Discourse, Eng. Discourse, from Lat. Discursus - Run Games back and forth,
circular motion, rotation, conversation, conversation). At different stages of
the study of discourse, attempts were made to define it, and the number
continues to grow every year (I.T. Kasavin, E.S. Kubryakova, O.V. Alexandrov,
T.V. Shmelev, M.L. Makarov). In Linguistic encyclopedic dictionary discourse is
defined as "a coherent text in conjunction with extra-linguistic,
pragmatic, sociocultural, psychological and other factors; the text in
event-driven aspect; we are considered as a purposeful, social action, as the
components involved in the interaction of people and mechanisms of their
realization. "Discourse - it is a speech, immersed to the life" says
N.D. Arutiunova [3 p.136-137].
Discourse - is a stable, socially and culturally conditioned form of
human communication. All existing language discourses have their specific
communicative intention. In everyday life, we are active participants in
various discourses - everyday, formal, educational, scientific, political,
journalistic, religious, aesthetic, and others.
For example, the pedagogical discourse is
characterized by a fixed set of ritual actions: greeting the teacher by
standing out of the desk at the beginning and end of the lesson, raising hands
if you want to answer.
Communication - is not the transmission of information and the exchange
of information between the communicants. Is it possible in the learning process
to prepare the student for an adequate participation in the discourse, to
predict its actions in communication, including speech acts? I think the answer
to this question is yes, since one of the functions of discourse is that it is
a model of speech and nonverbal behaviors for the student. And linguistic
phenomena trainee must learn not in isolation but in the context, i.e. E. In
the discourse, in different communicative situations.
Thus, the discourse is "a specialized kind of
clichéd dialogue" due to the social functions of the communicants
and regulated both in content and form of the sphere of social life, to which it
relates.
In contrast to the
discourse of the text is presented not as an isolated structure, but as a
"unity of language forms, values and actions." Despite
such a complex composition, for the study of discourse is important is not the
function of each of its individual elements, and functions as a coherent voice
work in the broader social context.
Many authors also give consideration to the problem of
differences between the text of the discourse. T.A. Van Dake believes that
"discourse - it is actual spoken text, and the text - is an abstract
grammatical structure of spoken." [4] G.M.Levina suggests using the
following formula concerning the relation of text and discourse: discourse =
text + context "or text = discourse - context or context - text + discourse.
[5] I. Bogutskaya believes that "discourse - is text that can be perceived
only in the possession of an adequate context." [6]
In the educational process there are two types of
interaction between the communicants' training - Training "," learner
- learner. «Joint activities and training in educational communication space
creates educational discourse that promotes, on the one hand, the formation of
educational abilities, on the other hand, intercultural communicative
competence. Academic discourse can be prepared and organized by a teacher and
have a rigid structure. Or in the course of interpersonal interaction in the
learning process can develop more flexible models of educational communication
with a variety of possible speech acts. The degree of stiffness / flexibility
discourse of course also depends on the personal characteristics of the
participants in the communicative process. Plays an important role creativity
of the teacher and the student. The level of preparedness / awareness of the student
depends on the complexity of independence and established their discourse. The
task of learning to organize the learning process so that the student could
perfectly realize themselves as the subject of intercultural communication. Any
act of communication in the classroom consists of the social context of the
situation, which gives an idea of the participants of
communication and their characteristics, and discourse containing the
linguistic and extra linguistic factors.
Depending on the purpose and subject matter
educational discourse, while retaining their basic distinctive features, can be
regarded as a projective based on legal, economic, medical and other types of
institutional discourse. This can be quasi discourse, i.e. not real, but as
close as possible to reality, simulated discourse. In connection with this it
is necessary to develop students' discursive competence, which is the knowledge
of the different types of discourses and the rules of their construction, as
well as the ability to create and understand them taking into account the
situation of communication [7, p.110].
To this end, for each field of activity can be
identified a specific set of speech acts, the typical situation of
communication inherent in a particular specialty representatives. When teaching
foreign language professional oral communication is necessary to study the
characteristics of discourse of a particular specialty, analyze its shape
content. This will help the students to actively use the characteristic of the
discourse of expression, thereby acquiring the ability to interact in different
situations of professional communication.
Depending on the extra-long, communicants
"confused in different status and role relationships (teacher -student,
doctor-patient, a bank employee - client) that require them to use speech
markers estimates that differ in emotional coloring. Evaluation remarks can be
deployed on any positive or negative models of communication [8, p. 40- 64].
Teaching foreign language discourse - an artificially
created language "environment that allows experience and simulate
real-life situations. It should be noted that the training discursive activity
is heuristic in nature, that certainly contributes to the creative abilities of
students, which are manifested in the creation of training their own discourses
(oral responses, reports, essays, theses, essays, etc.).
Important feature of the academic discourse is
considered his dialogic nature, as being a form of linguistic communication, it
implies a change of communicative roles. After learning discourse created as
part of communicative and social activities, to share all kinds of information,
intellectual and / or emotional impact on the interlocutor, to achieve a
certain result [9, p.5]. Dialogic nature of academic discourse leads to the
following functional features: argumentativeness, informative and
expressiveness.
Search
for the optimal organization of modern educational discourse in foreign
language education leads to the identification of the relevant utility models.
III. Conclusion
Recently, discursive elements (discursive words) and
their role in creating a discourse became the object of attention. Indeed, the
existence of discursive elements talking about institutional features of any
voice work. DOE used in educational discourse for the expression of subjective
evaluation. In oral discourse DE contact establishing used as binders.
Discourse connectivity is one of its most important features. Communication
parts discourse is carried out by means of discursive elements that play an
important role in the organization of its contents. Performing an important
role in all phases of the communication process, they explicitly govern the
process of communication are used to express the speaker's subjective attitude
to reporting, organize and direct the course of communication, ensure its
success. All this increases the role of the organizing principle of the
discursive elements.
In its structure, DE may be monosyllabic (so, then,
therefore ...), and take the form of statements (its common knowledge that ...,
It's a well-established fact that ...). For example I can give you some
examples: give students exercises on translating the following DE: First of
all, Firstly, Well, firstly, To begin with, I'd start by, For a start, First of
all, For a start, There're two points her, Again.
There
are typical speech cliché designs that precede the actual specification
of the event and established etiquette formulas tend formula of greeting,
presentation, and request willingness to communicate. Possession of these
clichés due to the high resistance of the component composition will
prepare our students for oral and colloquial forms of speech.
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