CULTURAL-CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IN TEACHING GERMAN TO MGIMO STUDENTS

Abstract

The article examines the cultural-conceptual approach to teaching German to MGIMO students, aimed at mastering the foreign country’s culture in the process of studying its units – linguocultural concepts. Theoretical ideas of approaches that contributed to its substantiation are described: emotional-conceptual, intercultural, linguocultural, multicultural, sociocultural. The basic principles of the cultural-conceptual approach are presented, characterizing it as an independent linguodidactic concept: the principle of parity between the studied and native cultures of students, the principle of comparing incoming information about the culture of two countries, the principle of the primacy of the values of the native culture, the principle of using critical thinking in the process of mastering cultural-conceptual information, the principle of verifying the authenticity of foreign language data, the principle of contextualizing the source of information, the principle of familiarization with the linguistic picture of the world of the Germans, the principle of constructing a person-oriented inference about the perceived cultural-conceptual information. A conclusion is drawn about the effectiveness of the approach in preparing future diplomats for professional activities in the international arena.