Formation of sociocultural competence of students in the process of learning a foreign language as the actual pedagogical problem

Abstract

Shcherbina І. Yu. Formation of sociocultural competence of students in the process of learning a foreign language as the actual pedagogical problem.

The article considers the nature of socio-cultural competence as a component of  pupils’ foreign language communicative competence; elucidates its structure and points out the major components, identifies key approaches to forming socio-cultural competence of students in the process of  foreign language learning.