DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT’S ASSERTIVENESS SKILLS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING

Abstract

The article considers one of the possibilities of solving topical issues of a modern multicultural university – the social and cultural adaptation of students in conditions of national multipolarity. The authors turn to the concept of “assertiveness”, the formation of skills of which is presented in the process of communication of subjects of the educational process as an important linguistic and cultural component. The paper presents the theoretical provisions related to this concept, analyzes and substantiates the significance of the skills of the phenomenon under consideration. The practical part of the article is based on concrete examples of updating the course program “Beyond the language and cultural borders”, revealing methodological approaches to teaching students a foreign language in the multicultural environment of the T. F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University.