COUNTRY STUDIES AND FORMATION OF SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of sociocultural adaptation of foreign citizens and stateless persons in a Russian university in the course of preparation for professional educational programs taught in the Russian language, which is becoming increasingly important in the era of globalization and the rise of academic mobility. The author brings concepts of sociocultural competence into correlation with communicative and speech competences (sociolinguistic competence is included as their component) are shaped in the process of developing a secondary language identity of a person who is studying a foreign language and country studies that are essential for the adaptation in a language environment. The author develops criteria for the inclusion of country studies into the curriculum as a separate course based on the work experience on the preparatory faculty. Considering the criteria from the perspective of increasing sociocultural adaptation allows the author to conclude that it is necessary to use an intermediary language for the country studies classes.