Abstract:
The state of society at the present stage is characterized by the expansion of various kinds of ties between countries, the development of information technologies, the formation of public diplomacy, and the process of globalization. In an open information society, one of the fundamentals is communicative intercultural competence which involves the possession of ethnosocial and cultural knowledge as one of the most important components of cultural linguistics. This direction is currently one of the leading in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The article notes the relationship between the mastering of new ethnosocial and cultural knowledge and successful intercultural communication, comfortable adaptation of students. The features of the linguoculturological analysis of texts, in particular social and everyday tales, in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language are characterized. Criteria of the selection and use of such texts are considered.
