Multicultural Aspect of Using Animation Materials in a Classroom with a Foreign Language Audience

摘要

Animated films used in teaching foreign languages are an informative visual aid that facilitates linguistic and cultural competence development. This paper presents procedures of introducing and methods of working with animated films in a foreign language classroom. Using the theory of precedence, the author analyzes the precedent phenomena in the Russian folk tales reflected in animation. Knowledge of the precedent phenomena (image names, situations, utterances) of one's own and other cultures, their comparison and comprehension in a flow of authentic speech is a precondition for non-native speakers' successful communication with representatives of other languages and cultures. Multicultural communication implies learning vocabulary, grammar and background cultural information of a foreign language and comparing them to those of a native language. The author highlights a necessity to develop new teaching resources in addition to the existing scenarios of working with videos, including with regard to the multicultural aspect.