National Identity And Intercultural Communication in the Teaching of Romanian as a Foreign Language
National Identity And Intercultural Communication in the Teaching of Romanian as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: In the context of globalization, intercultural communication and national identity have become indisputably relevant and increasingly important. They approach a new problematic horizon with multiple implications in an interdisciplinary manner. Within the teaching of Romanian as a foreign language, there are complex interactions between students from different parts of the world, a phenomenon that can produce profound changes in the identity structure of culture and national identity. Foreign students who come to Romania to learn the Romanian language meet more and more frequently in the space of interculturality carrying with them different cultural equipment, and the nonconflicting management of these differences is a great challenge. The respect of foreign students coming to study in Romania for the cultural variety encountered is an important aspect of the subsequent social, cultural and identity interaction between them. Socialization transmits and consolidates ways of communication, behavioral patterns based on functional rules, considered important for a particular community. When interacting with multiple cultures, foreign students and more, assimilate individual characteristics, experiences, and cultural elements from each, including the host country. Thus, intercultural communication has reopened the file of perennial themes of social thought, such as the unity and diversity of cultures, the relationship between us and others, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, the crisis of identities and their redefinition under the combined pressure of many factors.

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