Keyword: «cultural competence»

The author deals with some aspects and peculiarities of the competence approach and ways of formation of cultural competence of students of international relations department. The author defines the most effective methods and ways in teaching foreign languages from the perspective of the competence approach.

The article discusses an educational field trip as one of the effective organizational forms of teaching the Russian language to foreign military. The author illustrates the scenario of the excursion class near the monument to Vasily Chapaev in the square of the Military academy of Signal Corps, on the basis of which the model of the culture of Russian soldier is shown. The purpose of the excursion is to improve the communicative and cultural competence.

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.

The article examines the study of the tradition of hospitality in Russian and Chinese proverbs in the lesson of Russian as a foreign language. In accordance with the principle of "dialogue of cultures", a lesson plan was developed in the Chinese audience, an adapted cultural text was compiled, words were translated into Chinese, questions and tasks were proposed that allow for a comparative analysis of the proverbs of the students ' native culture and the country of the language they are studying. The result of the work carried out is the enrichment of the lexical stock, the development of the ability to analyze and generalize, the formation of cultural and linguistic competence of foreign students.

The article considers the experience of studying the cultural component in the practice of Russian as a foreign language using the concentric method of teaching. Russian, Yakut and native culture for foreign students is used as the material.