Development of Socio-Cultural Competence in Teaching a Professionally Oriented Language Using ICT

Abstract

This paper aims to characterize the role of considering socio-cultural characteristics in teaching foreign speakers a professionally oriented language in the framework of teaching them a foreign language. The author pays special attention to the ways and methods of developing the socio-cultural competence of foreign students in teaching them their specialty language, in particular when using modern means of information and communication technologies (ICT). The basis of the author’s reasoning is the principle of the communicative orientation of teaching a foreign language. At the end of the study, the author concluded it is effective to form the relationship between professional and sociocultural competencies for the qualitative teaching of foreign students in the language of their specialty. The particularly an integrated approach contributes to the organic integration of the foreign language into a new cultural environment, and, therefore, prepares it for effective functioning in the conditions of intercultural communication.