Abstract:

Modern education with its focus on personality, their consciousness and self-consciousness development, cultural and professional potential is directed at humanization and humanitarization. The latter determines contents, forms and methods at different stages of education adding cultural value to them.
The article considers the ways and describes the experience of developing linguistic-cultural competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language to the 2nd year bachelor students of Russian University of Transport majoring in translation and translation science. Linguistic-cultural competence as a constituent part of socio-cultural competence deals with the knowledge of linguistic-cultural vocabulary and lexico-grammatical structures as well as lexis with socio-cultural semantics.

In the article we propose the system of linguistic-cultural competence development based on comparative linguistic and cultural studies aimed at forming intercultural competence. First and foremost we describe criteria of choice and parameters of material organization: linguistic-cultural value, communicative value, freedom from stereotypes, typicality. Further on we dwell on exercises aimed at creating, expanding and deepening background knowledge by means of linguistic-cultural knowledge and linguistic-cultural analysis, for example introduction of pre-text references, primary semantization of linguistic units with ethnic cultural specifics, forms of linguistic-cultural analysis in after-reading activities.

Special attention is given to fictional text reading including activities for both intensive reading in class and extensive home reading. The methodology based on linguistic cultural analysis incorporates three interconnected aspects: non-textual information, text compositional structure and lexico-grammatical imagery.
In conclusion, we outline possible difficulties and give recommendations on the inclusion of material with ethnic cultural specifics into the lesson structure based on the concept of foreign-language education as a concept of individuality development within the dialog of cultures. We should stress that it is the implementation of all the above-mentioned stages of linguistic-cultural competence development in the process of education that can give positive results.

Keywords:

Linguistic-cultural competence, socio-cultural competence, linguistic-cultural analysis, Russian.