Foreign language and culture

There is a need to comply with the given linguodidactic principle in foreign language classes. But the subject “Foreign language and culture” hasn’t been included into curriculum yet. First of all, there should be worked out a linguotechnology of teaching them simultaneously. In this case we suggest basing on the theoretical information of Linguoculturology, Cognitology and Cross-cultural communication. Teaching/learning language and culture integrated brings to the forming the cumulative method.

We may suggest some prospects for FLT/FLL being expected in near future of Uzbekistan:

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  to develop a series of so called teaching-methodological complex (or complete) set for all stages of FLT (from kindergarten up to master’s degree);
  
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  to compile Foreign – Uzbek terminological dictionaries on philology and foreign language methodology;
  
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  to write textbooks on teaching methodology of English, German, French and other foreign languages. All innovations that have been accumulated in the world linguodidactics and characteristic peculiarities of foreign language learners, namely, language and cultural experience of the Uzbek pupils and students should be taken into consideration;
  
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  to elaborate the foreign language general methodology with regard for the contemporary definition of language functions as a means of intercourse (communicative function), instrument of thinking (cognitive function), maintainer of certain nation’s culture (accumulative function) and as a means of developing and educating (personality forming function);
  
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  to intensify the writing of such books as: Foreign-Uzbek cross-cultural communication, Comparative typology of cultures, Comparative and Special methodology of FLT (subjects under these names have been introduced and are being taught at Tashkent State Pedagogical University named after Nizami).
  

The history of FLT/FLL may be 2500 years as L.G.Kelly has corroborated in his work [7]. But the worldwide generalized FLT data on the issue has not yet been published in proper way. Though, strictly speaking, much attempt, as we mentioned above, has been made to do so in different regions.

The history of FLT/FLL in Uzbekistan has gone unnoticed beyond the borders of the country because of not being popularized outside of it. For the last years methodological and linguistic findings of Uzbek specialists began to be published in the West including the USA. The present work is one of them.

In conclusion it is necessary to emphasize that in order to cover the field in full an encyclopedic edition, to our mind, should be prepared and published in near future by common efforts of world foreign language methodologists into which the given article may be included as well. This idea could be the subject of another special article.