Ethno-Cultural Competence of Teachers as a Current Methodical Problem

The training of foreign students in the Russian language as a means of obtaining higher education in Russian universities presumes the consideration of values, norms and rules of speech behavior that distinguish speakers of different languages and cultures. For this purpose, the article reveals the peculiarity of interpersonal discourse and pedagogical traditions that have developed in the countries of the so-called Confucian area: China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. On this basis, the conclusion is made about the importance of developing the ethno-cultural competence of teachers, which is necessary for joint educational activities in this audience. In the developing of the polylingual educational space, the ethno-cultural competence of the teacher becomes one of the “points of growth” in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language.