Developing Intercultural Competence through Language Learning in a Military Context

Abstract

The article describes issues related to developing intercultural competence through language learning in a military context. As well as, the article studies the problem of using intercultural communicative method and provides opinions of the scholars on this topic. The idea of the priority of intercultural competence in teaching foreign languages is substantiated. Teaching intercultural communication in foreign language classes for cadets has the great importance in their future professional area and this is quite relevant at the present stage. The basis of learning intercultural communication is the ability to establish connections with representatives of another culture and language, the ability to find suitable forms of communication in any language. Quite often it is difficult to do this even in native language, when the intentions and actions of the interlocutor are known, so learning a foreign language is very difficult, since the interlocutors do not always understand each other.