THE FOREIGN LITERATURE IN THE FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH STUDENTS

Abstract

The knowledge of foreign languages in modern society becomes necessary as we live in a multicultural and multilingual world. The range of intercultural educational links has changed. Within the Bologna process, academic exchanges have been intensified, and opportunities for continuing education abroad expanded. Students participate in interregional and European projects organized with the help of new telecommunication technologies, communicate in a foreign language with their peers on the Internet, and foreign trips are connected today with the cultural and educational exchange.

Hence, the process of intercultural competence formation for Pre-service English students in the context of cultural dialogue requires innovative educational technologies in learning and teaching. The sociocultural component is possible only through authentic materials reflecting the reality in which the representative of the relevant culture lives and performs. With thorough knowledge of this culture, students are ready to communicate with the person of certain cultures.

So, as we think to form the intercultural competence of the future foreign language teachers, one of the effective means is reading literary texts of American literature. Moreover, the research is devoted to the problem of intercultural competence formation and the study aims to provide a theoretical basis and practical application of methods and techniques to form intercultural competence of pre-service English students through interpreting 20-century American fiction. The following methods of the research work were used to solve the problems of the study: historical chronological, theoretical content analysis, statistical processing methods, ranking, stating, formative and final (control) experiments, questioning, pedagogical supervision, interviewing, and others.