DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE
AS A TOOL OF CURRICULUM INTERNATIONALIZATION

Natalia A. Biryukova¹*, Elena V. Kondratenko², Tatyana V. Kolesova³, Nadezhda N. Golovina⁴

¹Assoc. Prof., Faculty of General and Vocational Education, Mari State University, RUSSIA,
biryukova316@gmail.com
²Prof, Pedagogical Institute, Mari State University, RUSSIA,
elena_kondratenko12@mail.ru
³Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Foreign Languages, Mari State University, Russia,
tatcos@yandex.ru
⁴ Assoc. Prof., Faculty of General and Vocational Education, Mari State University, RUSSIA, 
naduysha@inbox.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

The problems of development of intercultural communicative competence of all participants of the educational process in the conditions of implementation in the universities a wide range of activities for the internationalization of higher education are considered in the article. The authors reveal the essence of the concepts of "internationalization of higher education" and "intercultural competence". An important tool of internationalization, contributing to the solution of its problems, is the study of foreign languages. Particular attention is paid to the description of the experience of Russian universities aimed at finding new solutions to improve the efficiency of students' learning foreign languages. The authors emphasize the necessity of implementation of interactive technologies in the process of teaching foreign languages with the aim of training students to effective intercultural interaction. The formed complex of intercultural competences will allow students to be equal partners of intercultural communication in a foreign language, to use a foreign language for professional development, will contribute to the activation of all processes of internationalization.

Keywords: intercultural competence, internationalization of higher education, foreign language