METHODICAL APPROACHES TO FORMING LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF PRE-UNIVERSITY FOREIGN STUDENTS

The problem of national languages specifics is becoming more and more actual in modern intercultural environment. The process of forming linguistic and cultural competence of foreign students in pre-university education is studied. A pattern of teaching foreign students linguistic and cultural units considering national and cultural specifics of the Russian language and culture is presented in the manual Cultural Linguistics written by the teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language Department of Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin. It is aimed at presenting the pattern of teaching foreign students linguistic and cultural components, characterizing the organization of educational materials and content of teaching cultural aspect. The pattern of teaching cultural linguistics to pre-university foreign students is analyzed, the content, structure and methods of teaching are described. Two modules are chosen as examples - Culture of Communicative Behaviour aimed at preparing foreign students for intercultural dialogue and Russian cuisine showing methodical approaches to teaching language and speech units connected with the topic of Russian national cuisine. The analysis of methodical bases of linguistic and cultural competence of foreign students shows the necessity to integrate methods of teaching foreign languages based on didactic and methodical educational principles and considering integrated teaching of all types of speech activity: listening, reading, writing, speaking, learning phonetic, lexical and grammar aspects of the Russian language and content component including the units of Russian cultural heritage.

linguistic and cultural competence, interdisciplinary approach, intercultural communication, content component