FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: DEFINITION IN THE LOGICS OF LEVEL EDUCATION (BACHELOR AND MASTER’S PROGRAMMES)
The present article is the investigation of future bachelors and masters’ professional competence forming issue where the foreign language professional communicative competence is its major structural component. The competence under analysis fosters the development of future higher educational establishment graduates’ abilities to: 1) interact with native speakers of a foreign language, representatives of another cultures in the logics of contemporary scientific paradigm, taking into account their professional features, national values and behavior norms in the context of globalization; 2) create positive motivation for specific purposes professional communication; 3) use successful means of verbal and nonverbal communication adequate to specific purposes professional communicative situations. System analysis of approaches to defining «foreign language professional communicative competence» and its components showing their ambiguity is carried out in the present article. The author highlights the issue of future bachelors and masters’ readiness for different kinds of professional activity, where scientists define two major aspects: functional and personal. The conclusions based on the works of I.A. Zimnyaya and K.E. Bezukladnikov drawn in this article make it possible to define «foreign language professional communicative competence» in the logics of level education.