Formation of the Subject of Intercultural Communication in Foreign-Language Education

The article deals with the formation of the language personality, which is characteristic of language education. The language education in Kazakhstan includes teaching Kazakh and Russian languages, respectively; the language personality is formed at study of these languages. When studying a foreign language, a subject of intercultural communication is formed. In this regard, the linguistic personality has two of the above­named species, depending on what is the object of study language or foreign lan­ guage education. A student in foreign­language education uses cognitive strategies of his culture as basic cognitive images, he uses them in cognition of the new culture of the country of the studied language. As a subject of intercultural communication, such a student is guided by new knowledge about his own culture discovered in the process of cognition of his own culture. In the paper the main trends in teaching a foreign language are formulated. In particular, the revision of strategic directions for teaching a foreign language leads to a revision of the methodological training of a foreign language teacher and requires a teacher of a new education; the methodological basis for teaching a foreign language is the cognitive­linguistic culture methodology; the object of study «lingva­ culture» synthesizes «language­culture­personality» and reflects the goal of forming «subject of intercul­ tural communication» as an integral subject of scientific researches; intercultural and communicative competence has become the object of the formation of a foreign language.