Cultural-conceptual approach in university foreign language education and its principles

Abstract

The article examines the cultural-conceptual approach in university foreign language education, substantiates the expediency and prospects of its application in teaching a foreign language to international specialists. The principles reflecting its essence and specificity are characterized (dialogue of cultures, cultural comparison, the primacy of the values of the Russian culture, reliance on critical thinking, cultural-critical analysis and synthesis of information, verification, contextualization, considering the relativity of the information space and the linguistic picture of the world of a native speaker, creating a cultural-informational basis, forming a personality-oriented judgment about new cultural and conceptual information).