Developing linguoculturological competence during lessons in Russian as a foreign language
The article deals with the development of linguoculturological competence during lessons in Russian as a foreign language. It points out that the development of linguoculturological competence is a necessary component in the Russian language course for international students. The selection of concepts or phenomena for analysis and the ways of introducing linguocultural information into the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language is the most important problem for the technique for Russian linguocultural studies. The article considers some aspects of the development of linguoculturological competence during lessons in Russian as a foreign language. The formation of personality in the context of interaction among cultures and languages poses many sociopsychological, pedagogical, linguistic, methodological problems. The technique for teaching Russian as a foreign language is specific and is based on certain principles, uses specific methods determined by the main purpose of teaching. The skills of intercultural communication are formed on the basis of the following principles: cognition and the consideration of cultural value universals; culture-related learning of the Russian language and the native one; speech-behavioral strategies that ensure effective intercultural communication; control over their own emotions by students in the process of intercultural communication; empathic interaction among participants in intercultural communication.