Linguistic and Social Features of the Video Component of Media Technologies in the System of Psychological Adaptation of Foreign Students in Higher Education Institutions in the US

Abstract

The system of psychological adaptation of foreign students presents a number of technologies and approaches that are applied in practice. Among the existing components of media technologies, an important role is assigned to the video component that includes, but is not limited to, the linguistic and social features. Since foreign students require modern and multimedia approaches in the process of psychological adaptation and the formation of the necessary competencies that contribute to improving the effectiveness of interpersonal social interaction in the host country, the video component of media technologies can contribute to solving certain linguistic and social problems. The research was aimed at a comprehensive study of the theory and practice of using a video component, which required the use of methods such as analysis (to separate a video component from media technologies and media technologies from a psychological adaptation system), synthesis (to present a video component as an integral part of media technologies), analogy (to contribute to the formation of the concept of “linguistic and cultural patterns”), abstraction (to focus on an individual component of media technologies), deduction (to understand the process from the psychological adaptation of foreign students in general to the linguistic and social features of the video component in particular), and induction (to contribute to an understanding of the process of creating a system from various elements). The Article emphasises that video content can include academic videos aimed at providing access to recordings of lectures and informational materials. It is highlighted that the video content has linguistic and cultural features. The Article stresses the effectiveness of screening subtitled films in a foreign language to students for whom this foreign language is their native, because they will understand which communication situations can use a specific speech pattern.