PECULIARITIES OF IMPROVING THE SKILLS OF STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The authors of the article continue to study the didactic significance of foreign-language pedagogical discourse for improving the skills of intercultural communication of students (a number of scientific ideas are given in earlier works of the authors). The authors identify the main nuances of the productive building of foreign-language pedagogical discourse as a single field of emotional and intellectual interaction of subjects of the modern educational process. Successful mastery of intercultural communication skills is presented in an inextricable connection between linguistic and cross-cultural aspects. The most effective authentic means that are of the greatest importance from the tutorial point of view for the improvement of intercultural communication skills (namely, video materials of a cross-cultural nature, both the use of linguistic and cultural realities, foreign-language songs and foreign-language press of country specific issues) are pointed out in the given article. The authors paid special attention to communicative-oriented teaching of foreign language grammar, which is one of the factors of overcoming the language barrier, as well as a solid basis for further improvement of intercultural communication skills as a part of foreign language pedagogical discourse. As a logical conclusion, the authors identify the main methodological steps reflecting the sequence of work within the framework of communicative grammar, which directly entails the improvement of foreign language communicative competence of students. In the next scientific works the authors are about to regard effective communication strategies in building intercultural communication in modern realities and the system of both professional and terminological vocabulary of foreign-language pedagogical discourse.