Formation of multicultural and multilingual competences of non-linguistic universities' students in the process of learning a foreign language

This article is devoted to the study of the formation of multicultural and multilingual competence of non-linguistic universities’ students in the process of learning a foreign language. The author identifies the key problems in this direction, analyzes the existing methodological approaches to teaching and identifies the advantages of rational, communicative-cognitive, integrated and systemic methodological approaches, and substantiated the need to model a linguistic personality. The article concludes that in the learning process it is necessary to apply different methodological approaches and create situations of real communication on professional problems that students will have to solve in the future.