Intercultural Competence Formation: Teaching Reading of Profession-Related Texts in a Foreign Language to Agricultural Bilingual Students

The paper deals with the features of teaching of profession-related texts reading in a foreign language to bilingual students in agricultural higher education institution. Article’s purpose was to analyze the technology of intercultural competence formation by means of profession-related texts reading. The method of intercultural competence formation included using the profession-related texts containing intercultural information of native language (L۱-Yakut), second language (L۲-Russian) and foreign language (L۳-English). The conclusion about the importance – when teaching reading to bilingual students, the skills of intercultural reading to be formed while intercultural competence formation process on several levels depending on its components. Revealed teaching reading to bilingual students, ethnic features of bilingual students were taken into account. Discussed in the article technology of intercultural reading skills can be used as a strategy of intercultural competence formation to bilingual students of agricultural higher education institution.

Keywords:

Intercultural Competence , Bilingual Students , Reading Teaching , Intercultural Reading