Ivan Shakin

The trend of globalization sets a new goal for the Russian education system – to educate a person capable of global thinking. It implies a person has the idea that he is not only a part of his culture, but also a citizen of the world, an active participant in cross-cultural communication, and communication in the professional sphere in particular. As the basis for the integration of human society, intercultural communication requires certain training for its implementation, so the task of developing students' cultural component as the most important mechanism of professional and international cooperation becomes urgent. The article considers the essence of the cultural component of professional communication of undergraduate students of higher education institutions. The purpose of the research is to analyze the state of the problem of forming the cultural component of University students in pedagogical theory and practice. The article analyzes the works of modern researchers devoted to cultural competence. Modern requirements for training bachelors at the University are studied. The essence of the cultural component of professional communication, methods and factors of its formation, successful implementation in professional activities are determined. Technologies and approaches to teaching a foreign language and ways of forming the cultural competence of bachelor linguists by means of a foreign language are considered. The authors present the results of a survey of first-year students of the Chuvash State University named after I. N. Ulyanov to identify the level of their knowledge about the countries of the studied language at the initial stage of training at the University. They justify the potential of a foreign language for the formation of a cultural component of professional communication of undergraduate students.