Educational potential of regional programs and educational publications as a method of developing the intercultural competency of schoolchildren

The article deals with the methods of forming intercultural competency of secondary school pupils by means of the supplementary education program «English for Everybody», learning and teaching package «Lake Baikal Box». We have defined the concept of intercultural competency, its structural components: affective, including the experience of the person's emotional and evaluative attitude to linguistic and cultural interaction and its subjects; cognitive as a synthesis of knowledge about the native culture and the culture of target- language country, as well as general communication skills; strategic, including verbal, educational and research strategies of students. We have presented the results of activities on implementation of the supplementary education program in English at secondary schools of rural districts, organized according to the modular teaching principle and age peculiarities of pupils, and the experience of using regional textbooks in schools. It is shown that the program content and forms of work make positive impact on development of pupils’ cognitive, creative and communication skills and as a result contribute to formation of their communicative competency and improvement of subject, metasubject and personal outcomes of learning the foreign (English) language. Besides, such positive educational effects as a sense of patriotism and cultural awareness are achieved.