USING CASE-STUDY TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING STUDENTS OF CULTUROLOGY (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE THEME “CULTURAL HERITAGE IN CRISIS”)

The article deals with the application of the case-study in teaching foreign language for students of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Culturology. By the example of the topic of cultural heritage “crisis” the author reveals wide possibilities of using foreign language for mastering profession. The article is devoted to the analysis of theoretical and practical peculiarities of the case-study usage, specific tools and the arrangement of the educational process. Problem-oriented case-study for culturologists incorporates the following instruments: professionally-focused text, video accompanied by the lexicogrammatical assignments, projects about the examples of cultural heritage destruction in history, assignment to present the results of the research on the theme of cultural heritage as the core of the national cultural identity. Foreign language is used here as a tool of mastering profession because the research itself is based on foreign sources. Case-study helps to teach the professionally-oriented language in a creative way and to provide the environment for its usage. Studying cultural interaction in the globalized world makes it possible to understand our own culture and broadens the possibilities of cultural dialogue between nations