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the topicality of the research stems from diverse linguistic and cultural fusion due to increasingly growing number of people who are able to speak two or more languages globally. The research goal is to reveal the level of cross-cultural competence of the university teaching staff and, correspondingly, elaborate a new proposal of a selection procedure for the applicants on the teaching positions simultaneously stating that being natural bilingual or multilingual teacher can be far more beneficial within modern educational domain. To visualize possible prospects and advantages of cross-cultural flexibility of natural bilingual and multilingual teachers within modern educational domain a special study was carried out. The research incorporated two clusters of the participants: the students (210) and the teaching staff (50) at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. To achieve the aim of the study, the researchers’ team used a set of methods: 1) theoretical analysis to verify practical findings; 2) monitoring of the courses attendance to check a level of students’ engagement; 3) word association test to track a difference between various patterns of teachers’ cross-cultural flexibility; 4) elaboration of a new selection procedure stages for the teaching staff (foreign language positions). The authors of the research paper put forward a hypothesis that natural bilingual or multilingual teachers are far more prone to demonstrate cross-cultural flexibility in a classroom, as they are highly disposed to demonstrate shiftability, adaptability, responsiveness and sensitivity within the interaction framework implying cultural and linguistic diversity of the students. The results obtained demonstrated a high students’ perceptiveness to a teacher’s ability to orientate in a new cultural environment, to facilitate a teacher-student or student-student communication by easily adapting to a different culture; diversification of values, beliefs, norms and standards. The researchers elaborated a new proposal of a selection procedure for the applicants on the teaching positions (foreign languages) at the University, which resulted in its final form at the assessment and evaluative stage of the study and has been successfully implemented so far in HR university practices. This proposal comprises a sequence of obligatory stages and exposes a preference towards natural bilingual or multilingual teachers with convincing degree of cross-cultural flexibility.

Modern Educational Domain: Cross-cultural Issues in Teaching Foreign Languages