WAYS TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING FRENCH LANGUAGE IN UNIVERSITY
The actual questions of formation of communicative competence and abilities of different types of speech activity of the students at the initial courses of language faculties are described in the article. The special attention is paid to audition abilities formation as to one of the most difficult types of speech activity. The reasons of fading of interest to the French language studying in modern Russian society are analyzed. On the basis of the revealed limitations in the French language training at school and higher education institutions, conclusions are drawn and practical advice of difficulties elimination and a way of process of a foreign language training optimization at the modern higher school are given.