Intercultural Education Of Students – Future Foreign Language Teachers

Abstract

The polycultural character of modern society requires qualitatively different tools of managing the process of interaction between its participants in various spheres. It becomes more and more evident that the task of educating students in the context of the dialogue of cultures and preparing them for successful intercultural communication can be realized only on condition of the ability and readiness of foreign language teachers to carry out this process. The article states the problem of forming the intercultural communicative competence of students – future foreign language teachers as an essential part of their professional, social and personal development. It presents the results of the research aimed at revealing the conditions of effective intercultural education of future teachers. The basic research methods were the assessment of the methodological aspect within future teachers’ intercultural education, the analysis of the successful worldwide experience of international practice within teachers’ training and the assessment of the potential of international practice in Russian universities. The use of the named methods made it possible to identify the key directions of preparing future foreign language teachers and put forward recommendations, the implementation of which will contribute to forming the intercultural communicative competence of foreign language teachers and consequently their students.