IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The article examines the role of communicative competence in the professional development of a university teacher and provides definitions of various authors. The significance of the continuing education system is determined as a way to improve the communicative competence of university teachers. The constituent structural components of communicative competence are given and their characteristics. There are described goals, objectives and structure of the program of the course to improve the communicative competence of teachers in the framework of continuing education. There is noted dynamics of the growth of the communicative competence of university teachers after passing training in a refresher course to improve the communicative competence of university teachers. There is given a description of the competencies, for which as a result of training course listener will master.