Abstract:

The modern multipolar multicultural world enhances the role of the translator/interpreter as a mediator promoting understanding between countries and nations, a kind of ambassador of culture. Culture and art today are becoming a factor in the integration and consolidation of peoples, the formation of national identity. The art enhances the spiritual development of a person fostering kindness, compassion and tolerance, stimulates interest in various forms of cultural life, contributes to understanding of cultures, helps overcome stereotypes and biases. Art facilitates coming in contact with a foreign culture and promotes cultural convergence. However, research shows the multicultural potential of art in building a linguistic personality of a linguist is underestimated.

The paper discusses the contradiction between the enormous multicultural potential of art and reluctance of professional linguistic education system to implement it in professional linguistic education. The paper explores the multicultural potential of art to solve this problem in line with the cross-disciplinary integration of Linguistics and Culture-Study disciplines in learning and research activities.
The purpose of the study is to theoretically substantiate, develop and experimentally test in the academic environment a set of educational conditions that ensure the effective realization of the multicultural potential of art to enhance the process of professional training of a linguist.

The basic concepts and criteria for selecting content, which reflect the interaction of national-regional and foreign-language cultures, innovative integrative, interactive technologies that increase the effectiveness of students mastering multicultural knowledge and competencies are revealed in the study.

The basic approaches and principles applied in building multicultural competences in the educational process of the university and in extracurricular activities in a multicultural and poly-artistic urban environment of the city of Kazan, the Russian Federation are summarized.

The authors have developed, theoretically substantiated and experimentally verified the conditions for the effective realization of the multicultural potential of art in the process of professional training of a linguist. As the result of the study, it was found out that in the process of familiarizing with the culture of another people represented in works of art, there is a deeper assimilation of cultural norms, a conscious understanding of similarities and differences of cultures, reflected in artistic images, as well as values, traditions, customs, moral norms, people’s mentality.

The materials of the paper found practical application in linguistic professional training at Kazan Federal University, the Russian Federation, in the years 2012-2019 and confirmed their relevance and practical importance for the formation of a multicultural linguistic personality of a student. The results are supported by the data obtained via the students’ opinion survey.

Keywords:

Linguistics, student, school, multicultural potential, art, culture, professional training, educational conditions, translator/interpreter.