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Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475

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PROVERBS WORKING AS A MEAN OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT AT THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

Bozhenova N.A. 1 Bgantseva I.V. 1 Kirillova Е.B. 1
1 Volgograd State Academy of Physical Education
The article offers a variety of methodological techniques for working with proverbs at the lessons of foreign language. The authors demonstrate various methods of play and creative tasks, which are used to improve the activity of students at the lessons. Elaborated assignments are available even for students with relatively low level of language competence. Proverbs and sayings have great didactic potential in shaping intercultural communicative competence of students. The realized analysis permitted to infer that the application of proverbs at the lessons significantly influences the efficiency of the students’ cognitive activity, increases their motivation to the foreign language study, develops translation skills. In the process of learning a foreign language, cultural analysis of English and Russian proverbs contributes to a general culture of students, awareness of their cultural identity, education tolerant attitude towards representatives of other linguistic culture.