Teaching Tolerance in the English Language Classroom

The article introduces tolerance training in the ESL classroom as part of a broader paradigm of teaching culture and intercultural communication skills in the process of foreign language instruction. After a brief discussion of how tolerance is currently understood in Russia and in the world, the authors present tolerance as, firstly, one of the leading values in modern education and, secondly, as the basis of productive cross-cultural interaction. They conclude with an example of an ESL workshop that embodies the paradigm of culture-based language teaching and targets tolerance as its primary educational goal.