FORMATION OF READINESS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO CARRY OUT FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES
The article is devoted to the current topic of forming the university students' readiness to carry out professional and communicative activities in the sphere of a foreign language. The authors believe that the availability of readiness is a necessary and primary condition for students to master the necessary and sufficient level of communicative competence for solving communicative tasks in the field of professional communication. This goal of teaching a foreign language at a university is expressed in the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard (FSES). The paper emphasizes that the concept of theoretical readiness for foreign language professional and communicative activities can include not only the ability to carry out professional communication competently, but also deals with the linguistic and socio-cultural phenomena of the language. The article describes the types, stages, its psychological and communicative components. In addition, the criteria for the formation of readiness for foreign-language professional communication, corresponding to the levels of proficiency in foreign-language professional and communicative competence are formulated. The authors believe that the formation of professional and communicative competence requires a set of motives, beliefs, moral values of the students, self-assessment of their speech behavior and communication with a partner as well as the acquisition of language knowledge and skills of professional speech behavior. Substantial attention is paid to the detection of difficulties and the causes of their occurrence in the process of the formation of foreign-language professional and communicative readiness. The article also deals with the ways of students' readiness improvement. The authors came to the conclusion that if listed in the article conditions are implemented, the process of forming the readiness of university students to carry out foreign-language professional and communicative activities becomes effective.