ON THE QUESTION OF POSSIBILITY OF FORMING CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article discusses the possibility and the need to incorporate the cross-cultural aspects into the lessons of English for students of non-linguistic universities. This necessity is due to the students’ interest to cross-cultural communication with their peers competently. The author singles out such notions of cross-cultural communication as: values, habits, stereotypes, prejudice and others, which are necessary for deeper understanding of the representatives of other cultures offers the system of tasks and exercises which provide students with cognitive and communicative skills for cross-cultural communication.