Safonovа I. Axiological principles of formation of intercultural competence of foreign university students

The thesis focuses on axiological principles of the process of formation of intercultural competence of foreign university students, explanation and experimental verification of psycho-pedagogical conditions on this basis: 1) axiologization of educational process; 2) consideration of secondary language personality of a foreign student; 3) the development of positive motivation of foreign students to intercultural cooperation; 4) reflection of attitude to representatives of other cultures; 5) favorable psychological climate in groups with mixed ethnic composition. The following components in the structure of intercultural competence are defined: valuable-cognitive, valuable-motivational-affective and valuable-active, analysis of formation of which involved the rise of a system of criteria and levels: high (creative), average (productive) and low (reproductive). The "Studying of culture of foreign university students" course program oriented on realization of psycho-pedagogical conditions lies in the basis of the formation methodology. Thanks to innovative methodological-didactic and organizational techniques implementation, positive dynamics in levels of intercultural communication formation of foreign students according to all defined components was presented.