Linguo-Cultural Competence Formation During the University Courses Learning

The article considers formation of the linguo-cultural competence in the framework of the developed elective course “US Higher Education”. The created methodology for the competence formation is based on a set of principles (personality-oriented, cognitive-cultural orientation, culturally-correlated study of foreign and native languages, reliance on the native culture, productivity, principles of increasing the ratio of students’ independence, constructive cooperation of the university courses; principles of monotony and concentricity) and teaching methods (information-receptive, reproductive method of problematic presentation, heuristic and research methods), including a number of functional stages.