Abstract:

The article substantiates the importance of native region study in the framework of professional foreign language training of future teachers. The national regional component allows comparing foreign and native cultures, builds awareness of sociocultural stereotypes and understanding of behavioral patterns through the prism of one's own culture and provides skills of cross-cultural communication adequately to its context. The purpose of the study is to elaborate and test a learning and teaching support kit which is an educational methodological complex of texts and tasks for the implementation of the national regional component based on foreign and domestic culture stereotypes juxtaposition. The complex content includes culture-bound authentic texts about the British mentality, traditions and the peculiarities of their communicative behavior, as well as materials in Russian and English about the native land of students. The texts presented in the kit were selected according to their educational and cognitive value and contained pre-reading, while-reading and after-reading exercises, creative tasks for the compilation of cinquains and clusters on the studied issues.
The use of such methods as a review of scientific and methodological literature, description and generalization of the authors' own experience, experimental teaching contributed to the achievement of the research goal.
The authors of the article analyzed the expediency of foreign and domestic cultures juxtaposition through studying sociocultural stereotypes in the process of professional pedagogical foreign language training. Sociocultural stereotypes are emphasized to reflect the individual features of culture representatives, their mentality, traditions and etiquette norms, the knowledge of which will allow them to communicate more successfully with representatives of other cultures and teach this to their students, will reveal ways of promoting native national-regional content in the English-speaking world.
The feasibility of the elaborated learning and teaching support kit is proved by the results of the conducted pedagogical experiment which showed significant qualitative changes in the experimental group, which were not noted in the control group, where the complex developed by the authors was not used.

Keywords:

Cultural juxtaposition, native region study, professional pedagogical training, teaching a foreign language, socio-cultural stereotypes, cross-cultural communication, learning and teaching support kit.