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The article focuses on foreign language studentsВ’ involvement in certain activities in different areas of culture. Some authors [1; 2; 4; 8; 10] claim that only an intelligent or cultured person can participate in the activities in different spheres of culture, as well as follow, interpret and assess their manifestations. Therefore, one of the main trends of the involvement into cultural activity is a personВ’s cultural intelligence. Considering the approaches of western of scholars [1; 4], the following aspects ...

The development of cultural competence can be affected by various factors. Bearing this in mind, two groups of factors can be distinguished: internal and external. The aim of the current article is to analyse the factors that influence the development of the cultural competence of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. The research was conducted in 2014 as part of the doctoral research and involved 504 respondents, i.e. pre-service teachers of foreign languages at the five largest Lithuanian universities. The ...

Reflective practice has become a very important concept in teacher education. The current article focuses on the reflective approach to cultural experiences of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. It is maintained that reflexivity of cultural experience is considered as an assessment criterion for the cultural competence of foreign language learners. Hence, the aim of the research is to investigate the reflective skills of pre-service teachers of foreign languages concerning their cultural experience gained ...