Developing Intercultural Competence to Esp Students in the Process of Teaching Foreign Languages

Abstract

The article deals with research that contributes to the accumulation and systematization of scientific information on the problem of the development of intercultural competence. However, teachers experience serious difficulties associated with the insufficient development of this problem in relation to the tasks of professionally oriented training of specialists in specific areas, with the lack of a system-forming beginning and practical methodological materials, without which it is impossible to form the readiness of students to enter into a dialogue of cultures and to professional communication in intercultural level. This is confirmed by data on the low level of formation of intercultural competence among graduates of non-linguistic educational institutions for whom a foreign language is not a specialty.