THE FORMING OF FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE MARINE NAVIGATORS
This article deals with the problem of the formation of the foreign language professional and communicative competence of future marine navigators in a maritime educational institution of higher education, the structure and levels of formation of the foreign language professional and communicative competence were highlighted. In the study, a model for the formation of the foreign language professional-communicative competence was developed and experimentally tested, the pedagogical conditions for the professional foreign-language training of future marine navigators, criteria, and levels were identified and described. As a result of the analysis of the experiment, a positive dynamics of increasing level of formation of the foreign language professional and communicative competence of future marine navigators was revealed and the effectiveness of introducing a model, pedagogical conditions and a comlex of exercises in English lessons into the educational process was proved.