intercultural competence

Introduction. Modern methods of teaching foreign languages are targeted at the ways how to form and boost crosscultural competence. Theoretical analysis. The analysis of the current state of linguoculturology allows it to be held as an integral part of both linguistics and linguodidactics. At the same time, the linguistic and cultural approach in teaching foreign languages, noted in Russian scientific works, needs to be investigated in detail.

Multicultural context of contemporary reality determines new tasks of preparation of students to educational activity. The intercultural competence of graduates is necessary. It lets them solve actual educational problems in the multicultural environment efficiently.

The analysis of works on the problems of vocational education pedagogy made it possible to highlight the crisis points in its development, associated, first of all, with the inconsistency of the educational results content with the requirements of employers and the priorities of state policy in the field of digitalization and innovation. The system of forming employees' key competencies has become one of the priority conditions for the creation and effective functioning of the Russian state innovative economy.