FORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIC IDENTITY IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT SCHOOL

Abstract

The article deals with peculiarities of the formation of the Russian civic identity of schoolchildren in teaching a foreign language. Civic identity is considered to be one of those phenomena, the formation of which is relevant and significant in the conditions of modern reality. The author clarifies the concept “civic identity”, designates the mission of civic identity, details the possibilities of the school subject “Foreign language” in the formation of the civic identity of students of the school. An intercultural comparative approach is considered as one of the tools for the formation of the civic identity of school students. Here the mechanisms of the intercultural comparative approach in the formation of the Russian civic identity of schoolchildren are outlined; the results of an experimental research on the formation of the civic identity of schoolchildren based on this approach are presented. The study is carried out with the financial support of research works on priority areas of activity of partner universities of South-Ural State Humanities-Pedagogical University and Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University in 2023 on the topic “Intercultural comparative approach in the formation of Russian civic identity of students in the process of teaching a foreign language” (No. 16-350 dated May 26, 2023).