THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MULTICULTURAL PERSONALITY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS THROUGH THE MATERIALS OF THE TEXTBOOK “PRACTICAL COURSE OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE”

Abstract

Both society and the state need competitive specialists who can be successful in a multicultural world. This ability is an integral characteristic of the personality. However, in modern research more attention is paid to the study of the language and speech components of the professional training of university students, rather than the multicultural aspects of their professional competence. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to develop and describe a methodic for the formation of multicultural personality of students. The authors analyze the concepts of “multicultural education” and “multicultural personality”. The modeling method allowed the authors to describe and propose a methodic to form the multicultural personality of students. The methodic includes three stages: cognitive-normative, communicative-activity and evaluative-reflexive. To model the process of formation of multicultural aspects of professional competence, psychological and pedagogical diagnostics of the awareness of students of the second and fourth year courses was carried out via the author's criterion-level scale. The authors offer a system of specific methods to use the materials of the textbook “Practical Course of the German language” as well as effective forms and methods to develop students' multicultural personality.