THE EXPERIENCE OF REALIZING THE ABILITY OF YOUNGER STUDENTS TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

According to the Ministry of Education and Science, more than 20 thousand Russian students and schoolchildren study Chinese, many take the Unified State Exam in Chinese, and many schools have introduced the teaching of Chinese as a second foreign language (in some schools, Chinese is included in the compulsory curriculum and is the main foreign language). The article presents some materials of the study carried out by order of the Education Committee of St. Petersburg, in order to implement the project “Development and testing of a modern methodological model of teaching Chinese for primary general education in the conditions of the Federal State Educational Standard”. 12 teachers (8 Chinese teachers, 4 primary school teachers) and 350 primary school students took part in the project. At the initial level, the ability for intercultural communication, the formation of the communicative and behavioral components showed the need for a study of this problem. The author of the article examines in detail features of implementation of the ability of primary schoolchildren for intercultural communication in studying Chinese language and culture, describes features, methods and conditions for the implementation of the model. The results at the beginning of the study (2014) and after the end of the study (2020) show positive dynamics in the growth of the level of intercultural communication abilities, the formation of the communicative and behavioral components of junior schoolchildren. The number of schoolchildren with a high level increased to 144 (42%), the number of schoolchildren with an average level of 173 (49%) increased, and the number of schoolchildren with a low level decreased to 33 (9%).