ADVANTAGES OF USING A CULTURAL APPROACH TO TEACHING ENGLISH

Abstract

The article describes the advantages of teaching a foreign language (English) based on a cultural approach. Involving cultural components in teaching a foreign language and forming the ability to communicate in the studied language is absolutely necessary to achieve this practical goal. Thus, learning to communicate in a foreign language with an understanding of the true meaning of words requires a sufficient level of socio-cultural knowledge and skills. The cultural approach fulfills five tasks: developmental, educational, educational, cognitive and professional. Teaching a foreign language within the framework of a cultural approach is carried out by the joint activities of the teacher and students, in which, first of all, the formation of knowledge, skills and competences in the listeners, and secondly, the assimilation and application of this knowledge, skills and competences reach; and as a social process, it is determined by the needs of social-economic experience and development of society. At the same time, in the scientific literature of Uzbekistan, there are no comprehensive studies devoted to the problems of applying the cultural approach in the modern environment and conditions of teaching English to university students in virtual classes, which shows the relevance of our work.