COMPONENT CONTENT OF MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE IN VOCATIONAL PHILOLOGICAL TRAINING

The present paper outlines modern issues in the field of multicultural educational environment. In particular, it reveals the need to form multicultural competence as the basis of vocational philological training. The relevance of the study is predetermined by increased requirements of effective multilingual learning technologies. The paper aims to justify the component content of multicultural competence in didactic multilingualism. Concepts and terminology analysis of modern issues in the field of multicultural education is used as the main research method. On the basis of complementarity and integrity the multilingual-to-multicultural competence ratio is cleared up in vocational philological training on a Bachelor's degree level. Person and activity centered and purpose-oriented approaches enable the authors to view multicultural competence as the integral unity of the language activity in the curriculum “Foreign Philology. Multicultural training.” Multicultural competence includes linguistic and sociocultural, cognitive and strategic components. Gnostic, functional and value-ethical units provide an insight into the component content of multicultural competence. Special learning environment is requested to effectively provide students with multicultural competence in vocational philological training.