Ethnoculturological comments as a methodological technique in teaching humanities
The very content of the educational material for cadets-journalists «pushes» the teacher to the need for a broad ethno-cultural commentary on the courses read. The identification and explanation of national stereotypes allows us to effectively implement the process of intercultural communication, to choose the optimal strategies for interaction with speakers of linguistic cultures of different ethnic groups. Russian students have many problems both of a methodical and didactic nature: to what extent do students need a thorough acquaintance with the details of Russian life in the past and present, the peculiarities of the Russian character? Will the subject of a particular discipline be blurred, if we try to cover as widely as possible the way of life of the Russian people, its socio - psychological characteristics? In the article these problems are considered from the point of view of performing didactic and educational tasks. Each of these types of tasks includes several specific areas.