The extracurricular activities of the foreign language as the means of the development of the sociocultural competence of the future teachers

Thearticle deals with the study of the process of the development of the sociocultural competence in the process of the organization and realization of the different forms of the extracurricular activities of the future teachers in the pedagogical university. Thereisspecified the essence of the concept of the extracurricular activitieS. Therearedescribedtheformsoftheextracurricularactivities, conducted by the lecturers with the students of the pedagogical university. The authors consider the stages of the realization of the extracurricular activities of the foreign language. Therearedefinedtheconditions, that keeping thestudentsinterested in mastering the foreign language as the deliberate desire to develop their abilities and opportunities.