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The article deals with the main ideas of the communicative approach as methodological background to the development of intercultural competence of nonlinguistic students in foreign language teaching. The author underlines the advantages of wide use of communicative and discussion teaching technologies in modern higher education, describes the structural peculiarities and stages of their realization. It is concluded that discussion appears to be an effective form of intercultural competence development in terms of the communicative approach.
Илюшина et al. (Tue,) studied this question.