MONITORING OF THE NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE MODEL

Abstract The present study developed a new instrument, the qualimetric model of cross-cultural com- municative competence based on the model of the cross-cultural language personality. Based on a review of the literature devoted to the language personality’s communicative compe- tence development a 35-item version of the cross-cultural communicative competence eval- uation was composed and contained two groups: a group of communicative language compe- tencies factors and a group of communicative language activities & strategies. To justify how the factors in the whole model of cross-cultural communicative competence are distributed, the factors assessment was calculated with the conformance index value. Finally, the stu- dents’ cross-cultural communicative competence development was assessed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method. The results showed that the level of students’ cross- cultural communicative competence was significantly correlated with students’ language proficiency. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed as well. Keywords: cross-cultural communicative competence, communicative competence, foreign language competence, higher educational institutions, monitoring, qualimetric model.