Osnovy Mezhkul'turnoj Didaktiki

Authors: Ia Gallo  T Kuprina  A Petrikova 

The textbook is aimed at teachers, graduate and postgraduate students. It presents didactic fundamentals of teaching Russian as a foreign language at different types of educational establishments. The idea of teaching the foreign language is based on an intercultural paradigm, which suggests interrelated teaching of the language and the culture.

The authors cover the main questions of the didactics of foreign language teaching, its essence, subject and purposes. They describe the types of didactics and its relation to other disciplines, and introduce a notion of "intercultural didactics". The book presents the intercultural paradigm of education, its components, didactic description of students' intercultural communicative competence.

The resource is valued for describing the fundamentals of intercultural-communicative approach, that is considered to be the most relevant method of foreign language education at the moment. The methodology of teaching the language is represented within the context of the cultural dialogue, with regards to the problems of bilingual education.

The textbook comes along with a "Hypertextual Workshop on Intercultural Communication" on CD, which is based on the module principle.