DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COGNITIVE STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME INTERCULTURAL DIFFICULTIES AT STUDENTS OF A LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY

The article is devoted to the consideration of some issues of intercultural language education related to the formation of strategies for working with cultural information, personal mastery of ways to overcome intercultural difficulties by integrating the ideas of existing approaches of a general didactic and intercultural orientation, as well as taking into account global information challenges. The obligatory component of intercultural interaction is intercultural difficulties, which create certain obstacles to achieving intercultural dialogue. The article describes the types of intercultural difficulties and their didactic functions (cognitive, informative, sociocultural and meditative). The strategies of working with cultural information, considered as a basic component of the information and cognitive activities of subjects of intercultural interaction to overcome intercultural difficulties, are considered. These strategies ensure the creation of a platform for intercultural dialogue during the consideration of problems of an intercultural nature and are specified in the methods and operations of informational and cognitive activities. A review of linguodidactic practices aimed at the formation of the considered strategies.