THE FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PHILOLOGISTS BY INCREASING OF LECTURERS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

The paper proves the need of lecturers training to form future philologists intercultural competence. The need has several reasons: firstly, the development of future philologists intercultural competence requires improvement of lecturers pedagogical skills and the development of their own intercultural communication skills; secondly, as higher school teachers are free to choose education technologies, forms, methods and means of students learning, they should be given the relevant methodological knowledge for training students with a high level of intercultural competence . The article describes the forms and methods of improving the lecturers professional competence that are necessary for the formation of future philologists entercultucal competence. The best ways for increasing lecturers professional competence are: participation in scientific seminars, participation in international projects, studying the best educational experience connected with the formation of intercultural competence, scientific and methodological activities in collaboration with foreign colleagues (participation in international conferences, " round tables " etc); selfeducation.