SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECTS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNI-CATION STUDENTS: RUSSIA-GERMANY
The article describes the function of multilingual competence in the professional activities of future specialists. Knowledge and understanding of several foreign languages and cultures greatly facilitates the engineering activities of specialist, it concerns the preparation of the technical documentation, the ability to work in multidisciplinary and multinational teams and the intercultural communication within the team. One of the key components of multilingual competence is the intercultural communication promoting the effective interaction with representatives of other nationalities as well as social adaptation in another state. The experience of KNRTU in the organization and implementation of the project aimed at the development of intercultural communication within multilingual training is outlined in this article. To develop intercultural communication and multilingual competence of students and analyze their influence on the formation of general cultural and professional competencies an attempt was made to organize a study tour to Germany of the student group with a teacher. The trip was preceded by long - term foreign language, cultural and psychological training of students.