The formation of students' foreign language grammatical competence

The article deals with the intercultural aspect of foreign language teaching in general and the formation of students' foreign language grammatical competence in particular. The culturological approaches to foreign language teaching (sociocultural, linguo-ethnographic,
linguo-culturological, ethnographic, multifunctional, and
intercultural) are briefly described. It is concluded that the intercultural approach is the most appropriate for the implementation of intercultural foreign language
education as it reflects the modern requirements of foreign language teaching and enables students to
master linguistic knowledge and communicative skills together with a whole set of cultural knowledge.
The necessity to combine teaching grammar of a foreign
language with cultural information is supported with numerous English and Ukrainian examples.