The article emphasises that intercultural communication is currently becoming the subject of interest of philosophers and pedagogues, psychologists, lingua didactists and methodologist. The approaches to the problem of the formation and development of intercultural communication are shown. The article shows that Intercultural communication occurs when communication partners realize the fact of each other's "foreignness”.

Both psycological and pedagogical foundations of the project methodology of teaching a foreign language were determined in the article. It is underlined that learning a foreign language at technical universities is quite successfully possible only on the basis of creative development of imaginative thinking of students using the project method.