The Model of Formation of Intercultural Competence of Future IT Specialists

The effectiveness of the developed structural and functional model of forming intercultural competence in future specialists in the field of “Information Technology” in the educational environment of the university was experimentally tested and described in the article. The implementation of the structural and functional model was carried out in three stages: orientation and value (awareness of the importance of knowledge and skills of intercultural competence and its formation as a personal value by future specialists in the field of “Information Technology”; formation of values of intercultural competence); educational and cognitive (mastering knowledge of intercultural competence in order to use it in the process of future professional activity; familiarization with the specifics of professional training of future specialists in the field of “Information Technology”). A comparative analysis of the results of the formative and control stages of the experiment showed a significant increase in the levels of intercultural competence of future specialists in the field of “Information Technology” of students of the experimental group, which is evidence of sufficient effectiveness of the developed structural and functional model of formation of intercultural competence of future specialists in the field of “Information Technology” in the educational environment of the university and the achievement of the goal at the beginning of the study. The analysis of domestic and foreign scientific literature has shown that researchers have considered problems related to the formation of intercultural competence in future specialists in the field of “Information Technology in particular, they have studied: culture as a specific phenomenon, the use of a competence-based approach in education, the essential characteristics of the phenomenon of intercultural competence, the peculiarities of the formation of intercultural competence of the individual, the functioning of the educational environment of a higher education institution.