TEACHING AND LEARNING CULTURE

The author notes that teaching and learning a foreign language has a number of cultural features. In essence, the place of learning a foreign language is a place of intercultural encounter, where at least two languages in complex cultures meet, and students from different cultures can also participate in the classroom. The author emphasizes Beckmann's views on the three dimensions of intercultural communication in general foreign language teaching, namely intercultural learning, strengthening intercultural communication in the learning process, intercultural experience and, accordingly, learning intercultural communication. An example of this is the teaching of Vietnamese by a German teacher. Here, the teacher brings his cultural background and experience to the lesson, choosing methods, forms of work and exercises, teaching materials, media and even homework, which he knows from his methodological and didactic training. In the lesson, the teacher expects a certain role from the student and, as a result, a certain behavior. He will give preference to the corresponding expected behavior, and reject deviations in the behavior of the foreign student. Students also bring their cultural experiences to the classroom. They also expect certain role behavior from their teachers, as well as from the course, teaching materials, tools and forms of work, examinations. In addition, they have many years of experience of school socialization in terms of academic performance and educational documentation. According to Thomas, a person "becomes cultural in the process of socialization, learns and experiences socially important models of behavior in his group. Individual behavior is the result of the actions of a person using the opportunities available to him as a representative of a certain culture. As a rule, he will follow the framework of activity (norms, commands, traditions, habits) defined by the corresponding culture and will regulate his actions in accordance with the accepted system of orientation in the culture. However, there may be similarities and parallels in the behavior of teaching and learning, which makes teaching and learning more effective and enjoyable for both parties.