Chinese animals in the aspect of intercultural communication on the electronic platform of online collaboration

Zavyalova Natalia Alekseevna, Li Xinqi, Yuan Mengmeng

The article is part of a research program aimed at promoting the Chinese language and culture in educational areas of a non-philological profile. The authors propose a series of lessons on the comparison of animalistic images in Chinese and English using the electronic platform for on-line collaboration “Miro board” in the context of distance learning. Individual and group work modes are presented. Integration of modern electronic services into the process of teaching Chinese is not exclusively a necessity dictated by the pandemic but is a goal the achievement of which makes the educational process more effective, fruitful, and adequate to modern business realities.

Keywords:China, animals, online, collaboration, intercultural communication.