Some Aspects of Ensuring Socio-Cultural Competence of the Student in the Content of Latvian Language

Introduction The more changeable social circumstances are, the more important is the responsibility of the teacher to help each student understand his/her specific identity. It is vitally important to realize and fulfil the learners' social role in the particular cultural environment. Aim of the Study To analyze a number of content aspects of the Latvian language as a subject in order to provide the socio-cultural competence of student and to indicate pedagogical tools used to improve it. Materials and Methods The theoretical method - the study and analysis of scientific literature. Results The folklore and the semantic aspect of the Latvian language in the context of providing the sociocultural competence are assessed in the educational provisions, study programmes and the Latvian language educational tools. Conclusions In order to prepare teachers for higher educational establishments it is necessary to include study subjects that would allow future teachers to gain theoretical and practical experience about the traditional culture and to master the proper methodology for learning the traditional culture, working with student not only in the Latvian language studies, but also in other study subjects in the elementary school.