Abstract
The article gives the definition of the communicative-ethnographic approach which is aimed at the
formation of foreign language communicative competence.The author explores available theoretical
developments in the area of intercultural competence of the students in the conditions of immersion in the
authentic and socio-cultural environment. However, it is necessary to state about existence of a number has
not yet developed and insufficiently studied questions of this aspect.
As a rule, some aspects of introducing intercultural competence into the educational process are
examined from the technical, technological and didactic view. Special attention is given to the topics that are
directly included in the educational process or supporting its tasks, whose effectiveness can be increased. In
addition, the several ways to implement this approach are proposed based on the development of
intercultural skills.
On the one hand. It is determined the range of the students intercultural skills developed on the basis
of a communicative-ethnographic approach; It is established the psychological and pedagogical conditions
for the development of the students intercultural skills on the basis of the communicative-ethnographic
approach. On the other hand, a model for the development of intercultural skills of students has been
developed on the basis of a communicative- ethnographic approach; Communicative and ethnographic
approach is one of the modern cultural approaches aimed at the formation of foreign language
communicative competence and intercultural competence which are studied in terms of immersion in an
authentic linguistic and socio-cultural environment. The author describes linguodidactic characteristics in the
communicative-ethnographic approach.
The methodology for the development of the students intercultural skills on the basis of the
communicative-ethnographic approach is substantiated in order to determine the effectiveness of the
methodology for the development of the students intercultural skills on the basis of the communicativeethnographic approach.