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This article is devoted to the issues of developing general cultural competences of undergraduate students. Special attention is paid to the foreign-language communicative competence that determines the ability and commitment of Russian specialists to establish and develop professional communication in a foreign language. In order to develop the above-mentioned competence, the authors suggest implementing communicative training technology, which presupposes the creation of special conditions for intensive interpersonal interaction in a foreign language. The assignments of the communicative training include regional content that is connected to the field of nuclear energy and technical physics. The regional content itself reflects the comparison of functioning of nuclear power plants in Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, and the province of Ontario, Canada. The concept of the regional content is studied at the micro-level and allows creating special communicative training tasks that are based on real professional communicative situations that are significant for the representatives of both regions. Nizhny Novgorod region, which is known to be a major research center of nuclear energy, is of great interest to specialists in this field around the world. Regional content communicative training presented in the article will prepare Nizhny Novgorod nuclear energy and technical physics undergraduate students for successful interaction with their foreign colleagues in the sphere of operation of nuclear power plants.
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Glumova, E., Tataurova, E., Mahdi, M.H. (2020). Development of General Cultural Competences of Higher Education Students on the Basis of Regional Content Communicative Training. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_36
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