HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL OF BACHELOR OF LINGUISTICS' SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE FORMATION

2014. №2, pp. 33-38

Rozanova Elena V. - assistant, Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, 109240, Russia, Moscow, 16-18 Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya st, rozanova.langues@gmail.com

The purpose of the present article is the description of sociocultural potential of social media in the process of Bachelor of Linguistics' sociocultural competence formation. The study defines the notion of sociocultural competence that is one of the key competences of Bachelor of Linguistics' and shows its place within modern educational normative documents. Implementing social media in the teaching foreign languages and culture is the effective way of the sociocultural competence formation. The author of the article elaborates on three social media: social network Facebook, podcast services and social bookmarking service Pinterest. The study describes the work of these services, ther didactic characteristics and sociocultural potential.

Key words: sociocultural competence, Bachelor of Linguistics, social media, language teaching, социокультурная компетенция, бакалавры лингвистических направлений подготовки, социальные сетевые сервисы, препреподавание иностранных языков

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