THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ON INTERNET SPACE AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS IN RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN

The article is devoted to the consideration of the problem of intercultural communication in the Internet space. This problem is determined by active integration processes taking place in Russia and Kazakhstan, within the framework of the transition from bipolar to polypolar cooperation, from dialogue to polylogue of cultures. All this determines the relevance of the research topic. The subject of the research is the features of the Internet space as a method of intercultural communication and a means of forming multicultural competence in the Russian and Kazakh student environment. The purpose of the study is to identify and study the features of the formation of multicultural competence among students of Russia and Kazakhstan through communication in the Internet space. Among the main research methods: 1) theoretical methods (interdisciplinary & functional analysis, synthesis); 2) empirical methods (observation, diagnostic methods, experimental work, system and theoretical analysis, the method of expert assessments, interviewing, quantitative methods of processing results); 3) statistical methods (statistical processing of results). Based on the analysis, the author notes that recently the Internet space has become an important channel of communication and information for the majority of Russian and Kazakh students. This provides the possibility of two-way active communication with almost the whole world. Communication with foreign citizens allows you to learn about the culture of different peoples, adopt foreign words and expressions and introduce them into your own language and culture