Keyword: «межкультурная коммуникация»

The article highlights effective ways of teaching fiction reading skills, incorporating them into language teaching environment and using them in building students’ key competences, sums up the author’s personal experience of teaching home reading course to Education majors in foreign languages and demonstrates the author’s set of tasks aimed at contemporary British stories discussion.

The article summarizes the experience of organizing student and teacher exchanges (“language camps”) between Russian and US universities, dwells on their history, development and present day situation through the prism of relationships between sister-cities and our countries.

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.

This article is devoted to the study of how intercultural communication affects the formation of personality, how the dialogue of cultures contributes to its comprehensive development. Intercultural communication is presented as a special process of communication that has its own consequences. A thorough analysis of cross-cultural communication in historical retrospect shows that cross-cultural communication is one of the important factors of personal development throughout life.