Modern Intercultural Foreign Language Education

The article is devoted to the current state of foreign language education at the present stage of development of foreign language teaching methods. At present, there is a departure from the absolutization of the communicative approach and purely communicative competence as the ultimate goal of education and a change in the philosophy of education: a transition from a knowledge-centric paradigm of education to a culturally consistent one. Particular attention is paid to the difference between communicativeness and communication, which is put forward as the main goal of foreign language education. Teaching a foreign language as a phenomenon of constant communication of a student with another culture in the course of linguistic communication is intercultural in nature. The transition from the knowledge-centric paradigm of education to the culturally appropriate one required a change in the entire education system: the content, methods, units and means of education, which are considered in detail in the article. The thesis is substantiated that only a conscious and theoretically substantiated intercultural orientation of the process of teaching a foreign language can form a personality free from prejudices and stereotypes in relation to a foreign culture.