Keyword: «межкультурная коммуникация»

The article is devoted to the analysis of the multicultural paradigm of modern native language education, which is the result of educational purposes and methodology changes. The paradigm refers to the principles of poly-cultural personality development, to acquiring subject boundaries of educational sphere, namely the interaction of culture and society.

Studying foreign languages students are faced with a number of facts, relating not only to the vocabulary, grammar, style, but also to social, domestic or historic area. Learning English includes the variety of aspects. The article deals with the linguistic-cultural aspect as one of the major ones, providing the intercul-tural communicative competence.

The article is devoted to the concept of «meta-cultural notions», main indicators and levels of these notions. The author presents the results of the research, devoted to the format on of meta-cultural notions of students, who study in non-language majors in pedagogical universities.

Paper is devoted to the use of podcast recourses for teaching master s communicative activity in the professional sphere. The authors gives a distinctive characteristic of the algorism of using podcasts for teaching professional aspect of a foreign language and listening in particular, also he provides a universal scheme of working with podcast resources in the Internet environment