On the problem of language mentality in the context of foreign language education

Abstract

The problems of forming communicative competence in foreign language education are considered in the article. The interdisciplinary construct «language–thinking–ethnos» in close relationship of all its components serves as the subject of scientific cognition in the system of foreign language education. At the current stage, teaching of foreign languages is unthinkable without an immersion into another culture and mentality, which require a certain degree of identification with the particular language community. The communicative behavior allows us to realize fully the fact that the language, consciousness and culture are links in one chain.