VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AS A MEANS OF FORMING COUNTRY-SPECIFIC AND LINGVISTIC-CULTURAL COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTS OF NONLINGUISTIC SPECIALITIES

Abstract

The article deals with the virtual educational environment as a means of forming contry-specific and lin- guistic-cultural competences of students of nonlinguistic specialties. Considerable attention is paid to the pecu- liarities of the virtual educational environment, as well as ways and methods of its application for the formation of cross-cultural and linguistic cross-cultural competences of students of non-language specialties. In addition, the views of various scholars on the essence and characteristics of the virtual educational environment are analyzed in the article.