TEACHING A FOREIGN (ENGLISH LANGUAGE) IN A POLYETHNIC AND POLICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article deals with conceptual and theoretical and methodological foundations of multicultural and multi-ethnic education, as well as the methodological and technological aspects of its implementation in the form of a model for teaching English in groups with a multicultural composition. As a target dominant, the author positions the process of forming ethnocultural and intercultural competence of students, which is implemented on the basis of the principles developed by him: humanization of the educational process; leveling of negative ethnic stereotypes; democratization of relations between representatives of different nationalities; education of tolerance; recognition of the priority of universal values in culture. The article describes methodological approaches developed by the researcher to introduce teaching English into the multicultural and multi-ethnic environment: student-centered, communicative-active and cross-cultural as a theoretical and methodological platform for multicultural foreign language education.