Abstract
The growth of international relations and the growth of relations between individuals who belongto different cultures in recent decades are of particular relevance in the study of problems of intercultural communication. The aim of the article is to consider the strategies of teaching foreign students using intercultural communication. This article has both practical and theoretical significance, as it is aimed at identifying the main causes of communication failures of foreign students in learning the Russian language. The article deals with issues related to intercultural communication in the training of students of the Flagship program. The authors identify the causes of stylistic, semantic and phonetic communication barriers. The article also reflects the peculiarities of the perception of lexical and grammatical material by American students. The ways of overcoming communication barriers are suggested, taking into account the mentality of students. The article also focuses on issues emerged because of the implementation of cultural and background knowledge in the educational process. The article concludes that the success of communication is determined by various verbal characteristics of communication. In this regard, it is necessary to choose from a wide range of linguistic communication tools that are most suitable for each specific speech situation. The consideration of such issues is of practical importance for research in the field of intercultural communication and methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language