Intercultural Communication in the Context of Teaching a Foreign Language to Students of Non-linguistic Fields

New requirements for specialist training provide for improving the quality of language education in higher education. The article examines the concept of intercultural communication and its inseparable connection with the teaching of a foreign language to students at non-linguistic universities. To form communicative competence and overcome cultural and linguistic barriers, the help of specialists in the field of intercultural communication is required, since the cultural component turns out to be part of the language.