BILINGUAL INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF BUILDING THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS THROUGH CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE

Abstract

In a globalized world the importance of intercultural communication is growing. In many society areas, internationality, interculturality, multiculturalism are very important. Bilingual intercultural education is important for societies with more than one language and culture. Successful communication is possible only if cultural differences are accepted and these differences are properly addressed. Bilingual intercultural education is a purposeful process of involvement in world culture with the help of native and foreign languages, when a foreign language acts as a means of learning about the world, acquiring special knowledge, assimilating the cultural, historical and social experience of different countries and peoples. The purpose of the article under consideration is to provide the ideas on the importance of bilingual intercultural education as a means of ensuring effective intercultural interaction. Research methods applied: analysis and systematization of pedagogical works, which made it possible to reveal conceptual considerations regarding bilingual intercultural education as an important prerequisite for effective intercultural interaction; observation and teaching experience of the authors. For domestic science and practice, it is expedient to use the ideas of foreign experience of bilingual intercultural education. We consider bilingual intercultural education as such an educational organization when it becomes possible to use more than one language as the language of instruction. The second language is not only an object of study, but also a means of communication and a language of instruction. Thus, it is important to study the pros of bilingual intercultural education allowing an individual to develop and ensure the effective intercultural interaction in a multicultural society.