INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS OF MASTERING ENGLISH LANGUAGE THEORETICAL DISCIPLINE BY CHINESE STUDENTS

The process of globalization experienced by the whole international community could not but influence higher professional education. Russia is becoming an effective actor of the global educational space. Russian universities attract young people not only from the former Soviet Republics but also from China. The number of students from the PRC in Saint Petersburg State University is increasing year after year. The Department of Linguistics with its Bachelor program “English Language and English Literature” is especially popular. Today effective higher education is impossible without using a competence approach. The main goal is to make the graduates competent enough to work professionally. Here English Pragmatics and namely English Speech Act Theory are in the focus of our attention. The article is an attempt to analyze six years of experience of teaching Chinese students Theoretical grammar of the English Language and English Speech Act Theory.