112 Tetiana Anoshkova National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” Kyiv CULTURAL SELF-AWARENESS IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD Today we can hear the terms such as “soft skills”, “core competences” and “global skills” from every potential employer who is seeking for a person to work in the global business environment. Globalization penetrated into all spheres of our lives. All financial operations, services and business connections cannot be imagined without cooperation with foreign partners. Even if the company works within one country, it is very likely that the team is international. With all this cultural diversity it became extremely important for modern graduates to acquire global awareness. The idea of global awareness and intercultural awareness has been thoroughly studied by numerous scholars among which are J. Beneke, M. Byram, E. Bandura and others. However, they did not consider cultural self-awareness as an independent concept and only viewed it as a part of intercultural competence. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to study cultural self-awareness as an independent context and suggest the ways of its developing in the course of English learning. A successful global leader is someone who can operate effectively across national boundaries and cultures, defining goals that will appeal to a diverse set of people, whether individuals in their own company or external groups and organizations [3]. That means this person possesses a range of competencies among which are global awareness, critical thinking and intercultural understanding. Global awareness is an understanding of how environmental, social, cultural, economic and political factors impact the world [1]. Cultural awareness, as one of the constituents of global awareness, is, therefore, demonstrating an understanding of other people’s values, beliefs and perceptions which may differ from yours. But sometimes to be culturally aware is not enough for successful performance at work. One can learn other cultures in the course of their foreign lessons, history and geography at school or college, they can travel to, live and work in another country, and however, they will still perceive other cultures and behaviors through their own culturally-derived implicit beliefs and values. That is why it is brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk