Keyword: «культура»

This article examines various challenges that a teacher may face while teaching a subject to students of different nationalities. It also provides arguments about how it is necessary to teach such students, what skills and competencies a teacher should have and what educational standards should be applied. Also, there’ve been mentioned various approaches to teaching students from different cultures.

The article reveals the role of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the world cinema. The comparison of images of the detective in the various countries is presented.

This article performs an analysis of the reducing motivation problem in studying foreign languages. The author draws conclusions about actual forms of conducting lessons and practical methods of influencing students and increasing their motivation.

Despite the long history of good-neighborliness and cross-border cooperation between Russia and Finland, the Ukrainian crisis has led to a chill in bilateral relations. Searching for ways to activate cross-border cooperation, the author of the article proposes to pay attention to socio-cultural factors, which have recently become the subject of economic analysis. The article examines the socio-cultural profiles of Russia and Finland according to the methods of G. Hofstede and the World Study of Values, analyzes their similarities and differences. The obtained estimates of cultural differences can become a starting point for further empirical research of informal institutions.