Linguodidactic fundamentals of the development of foreign students’ polycultural competence during the Ukrainian language training

Abstract

The paper shows the analysis of scientists’ views to the definitions of terms “approaches to studying”,”principles”, “methods” and “techniques”. The development of foreign students’ polycultural competence is realized in particular approaches (competence, activity approach, personal oriented, polycultural approach); principles (communicative principle, principles of humanism, scientific nature, visual methods, systematicness and succession, consciousness, continuity and availability, individualization, text centrism, native language consideration, connection between theory and practice); usage of some methods (method of reading, direct, purposeful and comparative, purposeful and practical, communicative methods) and techniques (explanation of the teacher, usage of speech clichés, sound and letter analysis, etc.).