Ekaterina Ambarcymyan

The relevance of the study in the article is due to the development of globalization processes in the modern world and the intensification of international cooperation in various fields of professional activity, which entails an urgent need to prepare students for intercultural communication. The aim of the study is theoretical and practical justification of career guidance web quests technology as a factor in improving the effectiveness of preparing students for intercultural communication. The study used theoretical methods (the study and analysis of pedagogical, methodological literature, materials and publications in the pedagogical and journalistic periodicals on research problems, as well as concretization, analogy, modeling and analysis of the pedagogical experience of universities) and empirical methods (questioning, conversation, interviewing, testing, analysis of students’ learning results, observation, ascertaining and forming experiments, qualitative and quantitative analysis of experimental data and their mathematical processing). According to the results of the study, the article presents the theoretical and practical justification for the need and importance of using the technology of career guidance web quests technology as a factor in improving the effectiveness of preparing students for intercultural communication. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that its results contribute to the theory and methodology of teaching a foreign language in terms of preparing students for intercultural communication. Results of the study reflect the principles of work organization based on the use of career guidance web quests technology in teaching a foreign language; expand the understanding of career guidance web quest technology; substantiate the criteria and indicators of students' readiness for intercultural communication with the use of career guidance web quest technology. The practical significance of the study is in the development of assessment tools which help determine the effectiveness of preparing students for intercultural communication using the career guidance web quest technology as well as in introducing the career guidance web quest technology into the educational process in order to prepare students for intercultural communication.