Intercultural Communication in Digital Education

Abstract

The chapter argues that the contemporary educational process in the field of intercultural communication is largely determined by the fact that we are witnessing the blurring of the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds, which is due to rapid developments in information and communication technologies. The chapter emphasizes and reveals the importance of language education as a key component in the formation of specialists in intercultural communication, on the formation of a multicultural linguistic personality. The authors argue that the unfolding processes in education are changing the very environment of intercultural communication, providing new opportunities for learning, and also changing the very paradigm of educational competence of specialists in intercultural communication. To address the gap existing in the contemporary scholarship, the authors present and describe our model of the digital linguistic personality.