FEATURES OF PROCESS OF SOCIOCULTURAL ADAPTATION AND FORMATION OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF LATINAMERICAN (HISPANIC) STUDENTS IN RUSSIA Z.V. Boyko, K.G. Marin Jerez Chair of Social and Differential Psychology Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russia, 117198 This article is devoted to the analysis of the results of our research of the sociocultural adaptation features and the communicative competence of students from Latin America during their education at the university in Russia. <...> Key words: sociocultural adaptation, cross-cultural adaptation, communicative competence, sociability, logical thinking, conformity, emotional stability, self-control, interactivity, nostalgia, Hispanic students in Russia. <...> The study of the social and psychological adaptation is a topical problem of the modern psychological science and represents one of the main tasks of the psychological science. <...> The basic attention was focused on the analysis of the sense of satisfaction, psychological well-being and mental health of the “outsiders”. <...> The cross-cultural adaptation is a process of immersion into a new culture, a gradual development of its norms, values and behavior patterns. <...> Thus, the real adaptation means achieving the real social and psychological integration into a new culture without losing the riches of their own culture. <...> The most important factors for sociocultural adaptation are the duration of residence in the new environment, the language, the number of contacts and the cultural distance. <...> The greatest difficulties in these types of adaptation occur at the early stages of emersion into a new cultural environment. <...> However, the sociocultural problems will gradually decrease over time, while the psychological difficulties, as a rule, tend to grow [5]. <...> Connected with the adaptation to training activities in a foreign environment are such pressing social issues as: the negative trends in the formation of socio-occupational orientations, the lack of professional qualification potential of people and the low efficiency of its use, the unduly prolonged financial dependence of young people on parents, the dissatisfaction of the young with their housing conditions, the low family stability, the low satisfaction of the interests and needs of students in their own country and others [6]. <...> Studying in a foreign country may be associated with a culture shock in many students. <...> Many researchers have attempted to clarify the understanding of a culture 44 Boyko Z.V., Marin Jerez K.G. Features of Process of Sociocultural Adaptation and Formation. shock, emphasizing the different aspects of staying <...>