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INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: SELF-ASSESSMENT AND PEER ASSESSMENT
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The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empirical methods of the research allowed providing a thorough analysis of the concept of intercultural citizenship and gave the foundation to the following investigation. In order to discover university students' values, attitudes skills and knowledge regarding the issue under discussion, original data were collected from 189 students. Future specialists in international relations (N=54), future teachers (N=36), future doctors (N = 30), future engineers (N = 32), future officers (N=37) all first-year university students completed a self-assessment and peer assessment questionnaire. We found that future specialists in international relations demonstrated highest scores in competences for democratic culture among other university students.The results of the questionnaire also revealed differences in self-assessment and peer assessment on its own and in female and male groups of the students and put the question for further research
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