TO THE QUESTION OF LEVELS OF FORMATION OF COMPONENTS OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF CADETS OF THE EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE FPS OF RUSSIA
Changes which are happening now in the education system reflect orientation on humanistic values, communicative culture, developments and self-updatings of the identity of each participant of educational process. High rates of social progress at the present stage of development of society are connected with the formation of new type of thinking which means effective exchange of cultural values in the international life. Now it is obvious a need of knowledge of cultures of other people, and, therefore, search of new areas and forms of cultural cooperation is important. One of solutions of these tasks is the learning of foreign languages. Acquisition of a foreign language as the means of communication provides access to culture and social experience of the people of the country of the learned language and also opens ampler opportunities for cross-cultural interaction. The author considered a problem of formation of foreign-language sociocultural competence at cadets of the educational organizations of the FPS of Russia as a component of communicative competence in the article. The foreign-language sociocultural competence is difficult structured, includes the bases of cross-cultural competence complemented with the personal characteristics promoting achievement of cross-cultural understanding and successful pedagogical interaction. The problem of formation of foreign-language sociocultural competence at cadets of the educational organizations of the FPS of Russia at the social and pedagogical level is defined by the increased needs of acquisition of a foreign language and search of the ways of development of sociocultural competence promoting formation of the developed personality both in intellectual and of the cultural, professional, communicative spheres. The author defined components of foreign-language sociocultural competence: cognitive, activity, personal; levels of formation of components of foreign-language sociocultural competence are in detail characterized: high, average, low; results of the conducted research for determination of levels of formation of foreign-language sociocultural competence among cadets are presented.