THE USE OF THEORETICAL COMPETENCE PRINCIPLES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING
In international practice of foreign languages teaching the conception “competence” consists of general competence and communicative competence. Linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences belong to communicative competence. Linguistic competence includes lexical, grammatical, semantical and phonological competences. Knowledge and skills, necessary for effective use of language in social context belong to sociolinguistic competences. Pragmatic competence consists of discourse, functional and schematic speech constructing competences. All types of competences promote better mastering studied foreign language by medical students. Gained knowledge of special medical terminology in foreign language helps students in their future professional activity.