The role and the essence of national crosscultural stereotypes within the context of the crosscultural approach to the foreign languages teaching at university language school

The article entitled "The role and the essence of national crosscultural stereotypes within the context of the crosscultural approach to the foreign languages teaching at university language school", touches upon the essence of national stereotypes within the theory of the language personality. The author comments on the specific character of national stereotypes as a crosscultural phenomenon, pointing at their impact on the process of intercultural communication. Giving the analysis of the stereotype structure from the viewpoint of the language personality, the article highlights the necessity of incorporating the problem of national stereotypes into the theory and practice of the foreign languages teaching, and comments on how to cope with that.