Formation of socio-cultural skills in teaching foreign languages to students

Abstract

In this article there is considered the methodology for investigating another country’s culture and its everyday life, as its citizen, in order to form the competence of socio-cultural (cultural, social, political, ethnographic, traditional) information. This is what the technology of exploring the country by means of learning the language was needed for. The creators of this technology showed the whole necessity of this technique. Our proposals on how social and cultural competence can be formed in linguistic, discursive, and in intercultural communicative spheres can be widely used in the process of preparation of future Kazakh diplomats, training of government representatives, and shaping the personalities of correspondents abroad. Also, this technique allows citizens of Kazakhstan to be involved into the society of the world elite. At present, the main requirement for the teaching of foreign languages in Kazakhstan is the use of a foreign language as a means of communication. Therefore, the folk methodology of intercultural relations and the introduction of cultural dialogue took the leading place in the formation of language
identity.
Contemporary demands, set before foreign language teachers, form new goals. In this regard, the teaching of foreign languages is not circumscribed by time and by a specific subject. The task of promoting the country on the international arena through various intercultural ties, taking into account the spiritual values of other countries, is formulated. The main way to solve this problem is to improve the
skills of students in the socio-cultural sphere.
Key words: intercultural communication, socio-cultural, competence, international correspondent, qualification.