Socio-cultural competence formation in the process of foreign language teaching in higher educational establishments

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of students’ socio-cultural competence formation as a component of professional and creative training of future specialists. The author considers the features of socio-cultural competence development in teaching of foreign languages at higher educational establishments. The possibilities of modern information technologies using for teaching language through culture in order to improve the foreign language professional training of specialists are summarized.