ENHANCING EMPATHY IN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH POWERFUL TED TALKS
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Gulnara Makhkamova, Yulianna Zemlyankina, Gulyamova Zarina
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The general concern of the article is that empathy is a crucial component of intercultural competence and an exemplary quality to cultivate in learners and educators in foreign language education. The specific problem addressed in the study was lack of attention to, and the limited research on, the incorporation of empathy into the academic curriculum of Uzbekistan State University of World Languages and the Tashkent State Pedagogical University for the training of English language specialists. The research analyzes approaches to and defines the nature of the phenomenon empathy together with the importance of its cultivation as presented in foreign pedagogic literature. The purpose of the investigation is to disclose the deficit of empathy and the reasons for this in Uzbek language educational programs.
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Gulnara Makhkamova, Yulianna Zemlyankina, Gulyamova Zarina
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