FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON AND EFFECTIVE MEANS FOR FORMING POLICULTURAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The article describes the foreign language as a global phenomenon. The pedagogical potential of the "Foreign Language" discipline in the multicultural education of technical university students is emphasized. Multicultural competence formation of technical university students in the process of foreign language learning is an integral part of their future professionalism. In connection with the growing cross-cultural interaction and the interdependence of nations, multiculturalism allows to achieve harmony in the spiritual ambitions of different countries, strengthens moral principles and determines uniform moral standards for all social strata and ethnic groups. Among the spiritual and moral values of a student, one of the most significant is the upbringing of a citizen with a tolerant worldview, capable of understanding with representatives of other peoples, an intercultural, inter-confessional dialogue with representatives of various peoples and ethnic groups. This becomes all the more important, since in a multinational, multicultural environment of a regional higher educational institution, social and political stability directly depends on the moral development of the individual and tolerance. The author considers the complex of pedagogical conditions forming the multicultural competence of students by means of a foreign language and the forms of its implementation are considered. It is necessary to put the principles and approaches of multicultural education, competency building approach and learning technology to the theoretical approaches of students' multicultural competence formation.