FORMATION OF SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS AT SCHOOL

Language is the most important means of forming a general cultural picture of the world. It is the ac-quaintance with the culture of the country of the studied language that is the main value of the educa-tional process and constitutes the substantive core of socio-cultural competence. The article discuss-es the methods of forming socio-cultural competence. The author identifies the main. means of de-veloping socio-cultural competence