Intercultural aspect of foreign language teaching

Abstract

The article deals with the intercultural aspect of foreign language teaching in general and the formation of students' foreign language grammatical competence in particular. The culturological approaches to foreign language teaching (socio-cultural, linguo-ethnographic, linguo-culturological, ethnographic, multifunctional, and intercultural) are briefly described. It is concluded that the intercultural approach is the most appropriate for the implementation of intercultural foreign language education as it reflects the modern requirements of foreign language teaching and enables students to master linguistic knowledge and communicative skills together with a whole set of cultural knowledge. The necessity to combine teaching grammar of a foreign language with cultural information is supported with numerous English and Ukrainian examples.