THE CULTURAL ASPECT OF GRADE SCHOOLER’S DEVELOPMENT AS A PERSONALITY WITHIN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

This article focuses on the theoretical provisions and practical issues of the cultural aspect of the student’s development in the process of teaching a foreign language in primary school. The authors consider culture as one of the factors that form the personality and create the foundation for intercultural communication. The article discusses the relationship between culture and language, and examines the creation of conditions that model the sociocultural reality in the countries of the target language. The authors offer materials and topics of cultural studies to expand the subject of educational content within children's cultural studies framework in addition to the topics presented in the standard curriculum for the discipline "Foreign language", which can be successfully used in English classes at the primary stage of instruction. The article resents the results of experimental work and the main conclusions on the research. The research is based on the works by well-known home and foreign methodologists, scientists studying the problem of intercultural communication, innovative pedagogical experiences, and personal research of the authors.

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