The formation of children’s cultural studies as a component of modern primary language education

Abstract

This article considers the children’s cultural studies as an integral component of primary language education focusing on the development of pupils’ intercultural competence. The authors claim that learning a foreign language culture is closely related to the problem of learning to communicate. The article also highlights findings on the relationship between language proficiency and culture for both native and foreign language pupils. The aim of this work is to investigate theoretically and test practically the introduction of children's cultural studies’ elements in education process of primary school, which forms the linguistic personality of the pupil, who is capable and ready for intercultural communication at the most elementary level. The article reveals new views on the relationship between language and culture, determines the role and place of cultural studies as a component of the content of teaching foreign languages in a primary school. The research is based on the works by well-known home and foreign linguists and methodologists studying the issues of intercultural communication.