FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE IN HIGHER SCHOOL
This article considers the bases of competence approach, its role in goals’ changing, demands to education’s results, and also the influence of this approach on realization and mastering of common professional educational programs due to its practice-oriented feature and integrative nature of competences. The paper considers the approaches to the definition of the notion “competence”, “professional competence” and “communicative competence”, and also some components from the category “professional communicative foreign language competence”. The author discovers the role and opportunities of the discipline “Foreign language” in formation of professional communicative competences for students. The author substantiates the necessity of this competence formation for students in connection with broadening of educational, scientific and economic space, where a specialist’s activity sphere isn’t limited with a territory of one state; and for successful development an experience exchange with foreign colleagues is needed, access to up-to-date information about scientific achievements and new technologies, including foreign ones. The article provides the theoretically based conditions for successful formation of professional communicative foreign language competence in higher schools. The author also describes stages and process of experimental activity for exposing efficiency of the discovered conditions. The testing results of the chosen technology of education demonstrate positive shifts in formation of motivation, knowledge, skills and abilities of practice-oriented application of foreign language.