THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNO-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF THE STUDENTS IN NON-LANGUAGE HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of ethno-cultural component of foreign language learning in a high school. Being the link between the past and the future, ethno-cultural education promotes man of culture formation and a tolerant personality capable for ethnical self-determination, and having qualities of a citizen. The purpose of this article is to identify and justify social and pedagogical effects of students’ ethno-cultural education. To test the hypothesis there were used complementary to each other relevant methods: theoretical methods an analysis of pedagogical literature, various materials on ethno-cultural, multilingual and cultural education, ethnolingvodidactics, studies on the subject under the research; empirical methods the observation, identification and registration of pedagogical experiment, interview and testing, discussions and examination, and the results of academic and extracurricular activities of students. The results of sociological studies in Kazan Federal University are used in the given article. In the conclusion the authors give the practical recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the formational process of ethno-cultural competence.