Intracultural and intercultural communication experience and lessons: the positive and the negative

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems and patterns of intracultural and intercultural communication while highlighting the positive and negative moments of them on the base of analyzing the scientific literature as well as own results received. The authors analyzed many scientific researches on the topics about adaptation, its types, acculturation, acculturation stress and stressors, acculturation shock, mentioned typologies study theoretical and applied aspects and typological belonging connection to adaptation peculiarities and got interested into links between typologies and adaptation on one hand. Taking into account academic adaptation presence as a separate type as well as study, performance and problems impact not only on academic (partial type) but cultural/cross-cultural and psychological adaptation we got interested on pedagogical means in the adaptation improvement dependently on the students’ typological belonging. Also we mentioned the necessity for all the tutors working with the foreign applicants to know Psychology and such its chapters as Social, Differential, Ethno-, Age, Conflictology as well as to use these knowledge in their working activity. It is important to mention that help to foreign students in their adaptation maintaining as a whole as well as its separate compounds (social, psychological, cultural, cross- or trans-cultural) must have a complex character because not only the tutors should contribute in it but the dean-office’ and hostels’ stuff, the librarians, the curators, the psychologists as well.