Intercultural Communication in Modern Higher Education in the Study of Foreign Language

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of intercultural communication in modern higher education in the study of a foreign language. Intercultural communication as adequate understanding between two participants in a communicative act belonging to different national culture. We concentrated on the analysis of the teaching of foreign languages as a means of communication between representatives of different peoples and cultures. We made the conclusion that intercultural communication training becomes universal a new approach in higher education. At the same time, the theory of intercultural communication in the modern educational environment formulates general laws regarding the functioning of mechanisms and the person’s ability to communicate in a foreign language, the methods of their formation, and the methodology of teaching a foreign language operates on the substantive and technological aspects of intercultural communication and implements them in specific educational and methodical complexes.