University students’ training in cross-cultural scientific communication via virtual interaction

The topicality of university students’ training in cross-cultural scientific communication can be seen at the state, theoretical and practical levels. The significance of its solution aims at finding the best ways to organize the educational process at the university. The specifics of communication between the representatives of the scientific community is the existence of direct and indirect (virtual) ways of interaction. Accordingly, when organizing the process of university students’ training in cross-cultural scientific communication, it is necessary to build the process both with direct and indirect interaction. The paper describes the algorithm of university students’ training in cross-cultural scientific communication via virtual interaction, which includes the stages (preparatory, acquisition and expertize), the content of the online course (“Academic English for Masters”) created in the information-educational system of the university, and e-learning tools (simulator tools, control tools, information and reference tools, demonstration tools) used for this type of training. The principle of implementing the preparation of university students for cross-cultural scientific communication via virtual interaction is the adaptability of building the educational process in the e-learning system, which consists in adaptive presentation of the material, adaptive navigation, and adaptive testing. The solution of this problem has been carried out using theoretical and empirical methods: documentation analysis, literature analysis, ascertaining experiment, comparison, synthesis, generalization, induction, deduction.