The formation of intercultural competence among the students in the process teaching english

In the international level for modern journalist a linguistic and a cultural component have become increasingly important. In addition to knowledge in the professional field, future teacher needs to possess cultural, sociocultural knowledge and skills of intercultural communication. Nowadays this problem is widely discussed due to the active growth of theoretical and practical interest in issues of intercultural communication. The introduction of a two-level education system (bachelor's and master's degrees) in Russia entails a considerable number of changes, including creating courses of a foreign language. These programs must be compiled in accordance with the new federal state standards the main demand of which is to increase the level of intercultural competence of students in the process of teaching a foreign language at a university. This article touches upon an experiment on the formation of intercultural competence of students. The different technologies as: projects, discussions, brainstorming, and roles games were used for the formation of the intercultural competence. The results of the experiment proved the effectiveness of competence-based approach in the formation of intercultural competence of future journalist.