CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
MAIN TOPICS LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
MAIN TOPICS ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE
MAIN TOPICS COMMUNACATIVE CONTACT
MAIN TOPICS FORMAL AND INFORMAL LANGUAGE
MAIN TOPICS VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
MAIN TOPICS WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
MAIN TOPICS STRATEGIES OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
MAIN TOPICS address greetings, introducing people gratitude, apology compliment asking for information agreement/disagreement saying no tactfully expressing negative attitude politely
MAIN TOPICS invitation praise request giving an advice appreciation complaint offering and suggesting showing interest
MAIN TOPICS presenting information in order persuasion planning ahead expressing opinion
MAIN TOPICS filling in forms formal letters messages
MAIN TOPICS Telephoning
TEACHER Liudmila N. Polunina, PhD in Education, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages (Tula State Pedagogical University). Honours Diploma in German and English (Department of Romance and Germanic Languages, Moscow State Pedagogical University). Scientific interests cover comparative education, methodology in language teaching, sociolinguistics. More than 60 publications include 6 textbooks, articles in Russian and foreign scientific journals. The Best Scientific Book Contest prizewinner (2007).
Chair of Foreign Languages