Related methodological categories in the conceptual construct of intercultural didactics

Abstract

A new educational paradigm associated with an intercultural approach allows a new look at the traditional models of the process of teaching a foreign language in a pedagogical university, to determine the state of development of modern linguodidactics as a science, to determine the prospects for the development of this scientific field. The transition from the educational paradigm of an industrial society to a post-industrial one is marked by the emergence in scientific circles of increased interest in issues of culture and intercultural communication. The principle of cultural conformity of education (Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg) currently reactivates in teaching methods. In general pedagogic meaning, this principle implies the importance of familiarising a person with various layers of society, culture and the whole world. The principle of cultural conformity serves the ideas of harmonising the surrounding space and education in general, the determinism of the educational and upbringing process by the sociocultural environment, considering the educational sphere as a factor in the development and stabilisation of this environment. Thanks to the current process, closely related concepts appear in Russian and foreign methodological science – cultural competence, intercultural competence, universal cultural competence, socio-cultural competence and others, each of which occupies its own gap in the scientific and methodological space.