Multicultural Language Education as an Imperative of Modern Educational Policy in the Field of Foreign Languages
Multicultural Language Education as an Imperative of Modern Educational Policy in the Field of Foreign Languages

Summary/Abstract: The paper touches upon an important for the modern school concept of multicultural language education; its main objective is to prepare schoolchildren using linguisticmeans for full-scale interaction and cooperation in the modern multicultural and multilingual world.The authors prove that the concept of "culture" becomes a fundamental polysemantic phenomenon inthis situation. However, the dialogue or polylogue of linguocultures becomes crucial for languageeducation. In this case, the learner studies the culture of another country through its language andculture, i.e. multicultural language education contributes to the formation of his/her multilingualand multicultural (native language – native culture and at least two non-native languages-nonnativecultures) personality.

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