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ON SOME ASPECTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
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The article focuses on foreign language students involvement in certain activities in different areas of culture. Some authors [1; 2; 4; 8; 10] claim that only an intelligent or cultured person can participate in the activities in different spheres of culture, as well as follow, interpret and assess their manifestations. Therefore, one of the main trends of the involvement into cultural activity is a persons cultural intelligence. Considering the approaches of western of scholars [1; 4], the following aspects of cultural intelligence have been distinguished: cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and behavioural. The current article addresses the following problem: what aspects of cultural intelligence of foreign language students are most prominent in the Lithuanian context? The aim of the article is to explore and determine the aspects of the cultural intelligence of foreign language students in Lithuania. Research methods include descriptive statistics (frequency analysis) and analytical statistics (Factor Analysis). Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) was used as the basis for the research, which measures the four primary components of CQ (cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and behavioural). It has been determined that the respondents CQ is mainly defined through its metacognitive and motivational components. On the other hand, the CQ is rather poorly defined through the behavioural component, which demonstrates the foreign language students poor readiness for interaction in different unfamiliar cultural settings. The cognitive component also lacks in-depth consideration from the respondents, which leads to the assumption that they do not have sufficient cultural knowledge of other cultures and cultural differences.
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