Psychological Patterns of Development of Students’ Secondary Language Personality

This paper is devoted to one of the topical problems of educational psychology – the training of professionals in intercultural communication. The author's approach specifies the complexity of the notion of language consciousness and the ways to follow in order to form a secondary language personality capable of playing the role of a mediator in intercultural dialogue. The paper analyses the phenomenon of language personality from the point of view of psychology. The author suggests a comprehensive, systematic approach to intercultural communication that primarily requires conscious psychological disclosure of regulative functions of linguistic awareness in communicative activity.