Development of intercultural competence in foreign philology students – future teachers of Russian as a foreign language — in the process of working on the genre of excursion speech

The aim of the study is to substantiate the effectiveness of using a teaching methodology for foreign philology students focused on excursion speech to develop intercultural competence as part of the professionally significant communicative competence of future teachers of Russian as a foreign language. The article demonstrates the process and results of experimental training designed to develop the skills of creating texts in the genre of excursion speech among foreign students enrolled in the program 45.03.01 Philology, specializing in “Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language.” The scientific novelty of the research lies in the presentation of a model for teaching the excursion speech genre in the context of developing intercultural competence as a component of the professionally significant communicative competence of future teachers of Russian as a foreign language. The results of the experimental work indicate that the use of this teaching methodology for the excursion speech genre to develop the intercultural competence of foreign philology students is highly effective.