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Fiction Text as a Means of Forming Learners’ Sociocultural Competence
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Avetisyan, Elen ; Karapetyan, Igor
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Խ․ Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան
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sociocultural realia ; sociocultural norm ; cultural competence
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Fiction texts are an effective means of systematic teaching language and culture. A fiction text, as the most effective means of developing intercultural competence, motivates, involves the reader in a kind of cognitive process, causes aesthetic pleasure, develops aesthetic taste, critical and creative thinking. Reading a fiction text enables learners to master the behavior patterns characteristic of a given ethnocultural society, sociocultural markers, sociocultural norms, traditions, and rituals. Fiction texts as an important means of forming sociocultural competence performs functions of motivating, involving the reader in a unique cognitive process, giving aesthetic pleasure, developing aesthetic taste, critical and creative thinking.The reading of the literaryfiction text provides an opportunity to learn the models of behavior, cultural markers, cultural norms of communicative behavior, public and individual conventions, traditions and rituals characteristic of the given ethno-cultural community.
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Երևան