ON ISSUES OF DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN NON-LINGUISTIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS
The article addresses issues of the communicative competence in teaching foreign languages to students in non-linguistic professional programs. With regard to these issues two relevant problems are defined: a small amount of time allocated to contact classes and insufficient authenticity of the language environment. As a solution the author proposes to utilize the resources of the students’ extracurricular activities.