To the question of cultural approach in foreign language teaching In the article was considered and analyzed communicative competence of students formed in the learning
process and largely determined by how the students are aware of the content of thought, their communicative
intentions, situationally determined, as well as they freely on this basis, how they control their speech activi-
ty in oral or written form in the field of professional communication. The issues of language, culture, intercul-
tural communication and their interaction with the teaching of foreign languages are discussed. According to
the cognitive model there are such stages of teaching professional rhetoric as a sensitivity, operational, analyti-
cal and creative rhetoric development stages.
Key words: EFLT methodology; teaching foreign language; language skills; cultural background; linguistic
component; cognitive model; national spiritual heritage; language traditions; sensitivity stage.
Introduction: Gradual sophistication in the «global» industry of learning and teaching English created
a lot of new dimensions in EFLT methodology. Today no one argues that EFL should not be taught as a for-
mal linguistic system; it should be reoriented from knowledge-centered to culture-centered reflecting the so-
cio-cultural reality, where the learners are to express and develop themselves. The main idea of this approach
is not only personality enrichment by images of modern polyphonic world and ability to master all its diver-
sity, but also the strengthening of in-depth fundamentals of the personality closely connected with the na-
tional culture and perception of universal spiritual values.
Materials and methods: In the design of EFL education and instruction, the question arises of how
much and what kind of attention to devote to pronunciation. This paper proposes and highlights a socio-
cultural approach to teaching EFL pronunciation in the context of FL teacher training.
The peculiarity of teaching foreign language pronunciation (FLP) is that it takes place on the basis of
the native language and culture, which determine the formation of FL skills and habits. «If a foreign lan-
guage is acquired more successfully in parallel with the development of the native language skills, then the
entry to the world of a foreign culture can promote to a higher degree the learner’s personality development
as the subject of native culture».