Experimental Verification of Methods for the Intercultural Competence Formation in the Professionally Oriented Informational Educational Environment of the University

The article focuses on the problem of creating conditions for the preparation of university students for their future professional activities in the foreign language classroom. For this purpose, we took into account the external and internal factors of the organization of the educational process. The external factors include the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education, the Cultural Studies syllabus; the combination of competence-based, environmental, professionally oriented and intercultural approaches. The internal factors include the conditions of the educational process in the first year, the level of the development of students' personal and subjective qualities. These factors are determined by the principles of selection (intercultural and professional orientation, informational richness) and organization (personal and subject individualization, comparison, problematic sufficiency of educational material and its adequacy to components of the intercultural competence). The aim of the article is to present a methodology for the intercultural competence formation in a specifically selected and organized professionally oriented informational educational environment and the results of its experimental verification. The methodological basis of the research is a combination of competencebased, environmental, professionally oriented and intercultural approaches. The research methods include the analysis of literature, designing polls, experimental verification, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results, statistic data verification. The article presents the methods of the intercultural competence formation in the professionally oriented informational educational environment designed for foreign language learners majoring in culturology. As a result of the purposeful selection and organization of the environment, the methodology is filled with the intercultural professionally oriented information and instrumentally equipped with the system of exercises to achieve the expected results. Controlling and evaluating tools for diagnosing the level of the intercultural competence formation are created. The process and results of experimental verification are described for determining the efficiency of the designed methods of the intercultural competence formation, which the future culture expert needs in order to take part in the professional foreign language communication. The results of the research and the statistic data verification have proved the efficiency of the designed methods of the intercultural competence formation in the purposefully selected and organized professionally oriented informational educational environment and its contribution to the professional training of students majoring in culturology.