Concepts of language and culture

Abstract. The article considers the main theories and concepts of co-study of language and culture that appeared in English pedagogy in the late 20th - early 20th centuries. It is stated that socio-cultural, economic factors, and political events contributed to the fact that a foreign language has become a real means of communication, a factor in understanding and bringing people of different cultures closer together, their interaction, a source of information about the world, a way of self-development, and expansion of professional knowledge. Interest in the communicative and cultural components of the discipline "Foreign Language" entailed a change in the goal-value attitudes, content, methods, i.e. the entire structure of the organization of the educational process, contributed to a significant change in approaches to its teaching, namely, mandatory study in the context of culture.