The role of culture in teaching communication to language university students

This article intends to clarify why the ability of adequate verbal communication requires, along with lexical and grammatical correctness, stylistic correctness. It is precisely this aspect of speech communication that is completely ignored in our language teaching conditions , which very often significantly complicates the process of verbal communication, or makes it completely impossible. Knowledge of a language presupposes knowledge of the conventions (norms) accepted in the society of natural speakers of a given language the language of people, including the rules governing their verbal behavior.