Fiction Text as a Means of Forming Learners’ Sociocultural Competence

Fiction texts are an effective means of systematic teaching language and culture. A fiction text, as the most ef-fective means of developing intercultural competence, moti-vates, involves the reader in a kind of cognitive process, causes aesthetic pleasure, develops aesthetic taste, critical and creative thinking. Reading a fiction text enables learners to master the behavior patterns characteristic of a given ethno-cultural society, sociocultural markers, sociocultural norms, traditions, and rituals. Fiction texts as an important means of forming sociocul-tural competence performs functions of motivating, involving the reader in a unique cognitive process, giving aesthetic pleasure, developing aesthetic taste, critical and creative thinking.The reading of the literary-fiction text provides an oppor-tunity to learn the models of behavior, cultural markers, cul-tural norms of communicative behavior, public and individu-al conventions, traditions and rituals characteristic of the giv-en ethno-cultural community.