Adizbayeva D. Zh. Cand.Phil.Sci., associate professor

Kazakh national agricultural university

A.Zh. Shoibekova

КазНМУ of S.D.Asfendiyarova

Almaty

Socio cultural competence of teaching a foreign language of Higher Education Institution.

The article "Socio cultural Competence of Teaching a Foreign Language of Higher Education Institution" is devoted to development of socio cultural competence of students. In this work determination of socio cultural competence, its components and features of its formation in the course of teaching a foreign language are shown. The term "socio cultural competence" became one of the most frequency in professional and methodical literature. Formation of communicative competence is recognized as the standard purpose of modern training in foreign languages. It is obvious that effectively to form this competence at the students; the teacher has to have the necessary and sufficient level of its formation.

In article it is about need of ability to communicate with other people, understanding of other culture, understanding by students - the growing interdependence between the people and the nations, tolerances in opinions and estimates, readiness for joint activity with people of different views irrespective of their ethnic, racial and social origin and religion, focus on universal nature of modern culture means of a foreign language.

Need of modernization of the general and higher education in Kazakhstan according to the international standards caused need for the experts having culture and professionalism at the European level. High school education has to be directed on training of specialists, realizing the growing interdependence between the people and the nations, ready to participation in dialogue of cultures. All process of training has to have a socio cultural focus.

Socio cultural development of students by means of foreign languages promotes formation at them of skill to communicate, a speech step, impartiality in opinions and estimates, readiness for joint activity with people of different views irrespective of their ethnic, racial and social origin and religion. It creates prerequisites for studying of cultures of carriers of the learned language.

A socio cultural competence has the components linguistic-cultural and cross-cultural and regional geographic competences. Background knowledge of the learned language are important for formation of linguistic-cultural competence; level of knowledge of a foreign language, realities; ability to use them as is accepted in this culture.

Cultural and regional geographic competence of the student includes knowledge of the country of the learned language (knowledge of a socio cultural, historical and cultural, ethno cultural background, geography, national customs, traditions, realities) providing adequate communication with use of a national and cultural component of language.

Socio cultural competence is formed on a set to an alternative basis, where one channel on which information arrives, is supplemented with another. The main socio cultural component of the content of training is the educational text. As the educational text thematic, regional geographic, art texts, dialogues and poly logues, verses, songs, letters, situational clichés, interview, audio texts of conversations with native speakers are used. It is important that the text was authentic, I corresponded to interests of students and I was closest to a natural situation. Speaking about a socio cultural component in the content of training, for example, if to take German then it is important to allocate also a cultural component. This knowledge of social realities, behavior model bases in a standard situation, important historical events, and the largest figures of literature, art and medicine. For this purpose on occupations the thematic texts acquainting students with realities of the German life are used. Development of socio cultural competence is impossible during the work only with one text - foreign culture or belonging to the culture which is for the student native. Therefore it is necessary to address when studying the same problem to two and more texts.

Stage-by-stage work with socio cultural initial information is offered to students: the first stage - obtaining initial information; the second stage reconstruction of initial information (comparison - generalization - conclusion); the third stage - use of information. The part of information is presented in the form of pictures, grants, medical or technical popular scientific journals, methodical development with illustrations which promote formation of a realistic image of the country of the learned language; another - the pragmatical materials representing utilitarian authentic materials (questionnaires, theatrical and other a aplets, travel and entrance tickets, labels, cards, schemes plans, photos, slides with types of landscapes, the cities, checks, cards, fair brochures on drugs, etc.). On available application they are very significant for familiarizing of students with others habitat and language.

Confidants to real conditions of foreign-language communication of a situation are created on occupations by means of pair or group work. For implementation of such communication students constantly study technology of communication - how to begin conversation, to support her, to enter it, in case of need - to add, specify, request information, to agree or to disagree with the statement, etc. Role-playing games, copying of actions and dialogue of texts are for this purpose used.

Inclusion in educational activity of role-playing games, gives to students the chance to get acquainted with mentality of the German and English people and develops positive motivation in studying of their languages. During these games students study culture of communication: how to welcome how to congratulate friends, native, familiar how to ask a question for obtaining information.

The realization of socio cultural approach is enabled when carrying out traditional German and national holidays of British: Day of Saint Nikolay (Nikolaustag), Day Saint George, Christmas (Weihnachten), St. Valentine's Day (Verliebstag), Easter (Ostern) - with learning of songs and verses, demonstration and production of national attributes by a holiday: wreaths by a crop holiday, Christmas, Easter, Christmas candles and a calendar, Valentine's Day cards, an Easter tree, Easter chocolate eggs, nests with Easter eggs and a hare, etc.

At learning of foreign language the culture of the world in consciousness of the person is formed. The language phenomena, customs, traditions, art, a way of life of the people are studied and compared. Studying proverbs, for example, we compare as the same thought is transferred by different means in different languages, we pay attention to such moments that the popular wisdom expressed in proverbs is international.

The next moment, about which it is impossible to forget, speaking about formation of sociocultural competence is of course, speech etiquette. The speech etiquette is the standard of speech, and the standard of speech is a face of the person, a face of the student. The speech etiquette of a foreign language has special value for education of the personality in general. In view of our language culture, it is possible to learn and teach much, learning German or English colloquial etiquette, applying in situations of cross-cultural communication (for example, a greeting, the address, farewell in oral and written language).

One more way of development of socio cultural competence of students is use of video records. Video movies are some kind of cultural portraits of the country. Thanks to them, students can see personally landscapes and sights of the country, to observe process of a holiday, a ceremony, behavior model of people in everyday life, for example, on reception at the doctor, etc. As the telecommunication and information technologies play an escalating role in everyday and professional life of the modern expert, there is a need of use of information technologies for development of cross-cultural competence.

Immersion in virtual space - very effective remedy of development of socio cultural competence of students. This virtual space is the authentic virtual interactive language environment and the powerful instrument of acquisition of knowledge - the Internet. It is boundless bank of information. There is a set of thematic reference books and catalogs of Internet resources in which it is possible to find concrete web addresses of these or those sites devoted to these or those spheres of human life including to training in foreign languages.

Thus, the modern young man has to be focused on universal nature of modern culture, be able to communicate with other people, to understand other cultures and to learn himself. Formation of such personality is the most important task of the modern higher school.

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