THE METHODOLOGY OF ORGANIZING EXPERIMENT STUDIES AIMED AT IMPROVING CULTURAL COMPETENCIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITIES BASED ON AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

Y.Badelbayeva

doi:10.5281/zenodo.7343062

Y.Badelbayeva

Abstract. This article is dedicated to experimenting with studies in English at diverse universities. There is shown the aims, tasks, and results of experiments as well as the impact of English on cultural competence in both teaching and studying. So, it is divided into three levels: critical, formative, and evaluation. All the processes of experimenting are given in mentioned levels. In experimenting, given project works such as “Debate”, “Start-up”, “Case-study” and modern methods Crocodile, Questionnaire, SWOT, Think wane, activities like play around, kick the ball, chain the story, dance on the aim, presentations to open students’ abilities. Moreover, the explanation of “General English” is pointed to the formation of English. If learners are good at general English, all other fields in English including business, engineering, and others will be more straightforward, in addition, it will be more efficient to deal with APTIS, IELTS, TESOL, and other international courses. So, in the experimenting part, there are given three universities, GPAs, grades, and lesson weeks according to the Korean educational syllabus. The number of students is 150 in the experimental group and 223 students in the control group.

Keywords: experimenting, cultural competence, credit-module system, Business English, pedagogical technologies, activities, methods, students.

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