Dialogue of cultures as a principle for organizing project activities of foreign philology students in the process of professional training

The article reveals the goals and content of the project activities of foreign students studying in the field of 45.03.01 Philology (profile: Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language), organized on the basis of the principle of dialogue of cultures as the leading one in modern foreign language education. Dialogue of cultures as a principle of professional training for future teachers of Russian as a foreign/non-native language needs to be specified both at the level of goals and at the level of implementation technologies. Taking into account the requirements of the professiogram of a teacher of Russian as a foreign language, the goal of professional training is pedagogically significant intercultural competence, constructed on the basis of the principle of dialogue of cultures, as the ability to carry out pedagogical activities based on the principle of dialogue of cultures, to broadcast a foreign language culture and introduce it to it, teaching the language taking into account the principles of cross-cultural didactics. The achievement of this goal is facilitated by the project activities of students, organized as an educational analogue of the activities of a bilingual teacher to implement the principle of dialogue of cultures in the practice of teaching languages. The article describes a model for organizing project activities of foreign philology students using the example of project activities organized in the process of studying the discipline «Teaching RFL in the aspect of cross-cultural education» at the Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University.