Structure and Content of the Speech Competence of the Non-Linguistic Higher School Student
The article discusses a speech competence as a component of the professionally-oriented foreign language communicative competence of students in non-linguistic higher school, which can provide future specialists to operate successfully in professional environment. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the concept «speech competence», an algorithm for its construction and defines the concept of the professionally-oriented speech competence of non-linguistic higher school students. The authors distinguish three components in the professionally-oriented speech competence: social, subject-professional and process, the content of which are described and presented in the structural and content model. The content of the social component of the professionally-oriented speech competence represents the social and cultural environment where this competence functions. The subject-professional component provides students’ professional readiness to take part in professionally-oriented speech activity due to professional and subject (typical for foreign languages) knowledge, which are necessary to get or transfer professionally significant information. The process component appears as a speech skills set of written and oral communication. The most significant for professional activity of future specialists are reading and writing as means of foreign language written communication.