Keyword: «межкультурная коммуникация»

The article deals with the use of linguo-cultural material at the initial stage of teaching a foreign language. The author considers the origin of culture-oriented linguistics as a separate branch of linguistics, describes five principles that form the methodological base culture-oriented linguistics, analyzes the ways of communicating country-specific information to students, concludes that the linguo-cultural aspect is an important component of foreign language education at its every stage, including early education. It has a high didactic potential, as it forms children’s interest and motivation to learn a foreign language; meets the principles of informativeness and novelty, which must be adhered proceeding from features of developmental psychology of preschool children and primary school students; to present and improve linguo-cultural information, as well as other linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge, it is advisable to use activities peculiar to children of this age

This article is devoted to the problem of formation of intercultural competence of foreign students in the process of learning Russian. The article proves the idea that the Russian language should be studied in indissoluble unity with the world and culture of Russia, should be mastered in the process of dialogue of cultures.

The article considers cultural differences and contradictions between American North and South using as an example the story “The Ice Palace” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) studied during home reading classes.

The article describes some methods of teaching intercultural communication through assignments for students in the process of forming intercultural competence in the context of cultural dialogue and studying foreign languages.

The relevance of the topic studied by the authors is due to the fact that today an employee of the penitentiary system must have a number of specific skills, the most significant of which are the skills of intercultural communication, consisting of such components as: tolerant interethnic interaction and the ability to keep a constructive intercultural dialogue. These requirements established by the state and society for an employee of the penitentiary system indicated the need to develop the skills of interethnic tolerance among cadets. The problem of forming the skills of interethnic tolerance among cadets of educational organizations of the federal penitentiary service, based on the principles of tolerance, has been in the focus of attention of various scientific directions for a long time. The purpose of the study was to substantiate theoretically and test experimentally the proposed directions for the formation of these skills in cadets. The study was carried out by the authors using the following methods: the questionnaire "Diagnostics of general communicative tolerance" by V. V. Boyko, modified by the authors; questionnaire "Finding the level of conflict tolerance" by N. P. Fetiskin, V. V. Kozlov, G. M. Manuilov; express questionnaire "Index of Tolerance" (G. U. Soldatova, O. A. Kravtsova, L. A. Shaigerova). The conclusions and proposals made by the authors for improving the educational process in the Vladimir Legal Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the possibility of further scientific developments on this topic represent the theoretical significance of the work. The practical significance of the work is the experience of the formation of interethnic tolerance skills among cadets considered in the article on the example of the Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service, which, if necessary, may be used by other universities. The main results of the work include the implementation of the directions proposed by the authors for the formation of interethnic tolerance among cadets, a positive change in attitudes towards representatives of other ethnic groups, an increase in the level of interethnic tolerance in the experimental group. Thus, the effectiveness of the directions proposed by the authors for the formation of interethnic tolerance among cadets has been proved. The experience of forming the skills of interethnic tolerance among cadets, considered on the example of the Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service, may be used by other higher educational institutions in order to increase the effectiveness of educational work among students.