The importance of developing intercultural communication skills in teaching foreign languages

Abstract

The article considers teaching a foreign language as a means of everyday communication with native speakers of another culture. Special attention is paid to crosscultural learning, which contributes to the achievement of cross-cultural communication. The article offers opportunities for developing the abilities and skills of cross-cultural communication with the involvement of the material of linguistic and cultural content, provides examples of exercises for the development and consolidation of cross-cultural communication skills, aimed at the ability to interpret the existing various models of perception of the world, to relate other cultural customs and mores with their behavioral norms.