FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE FORMATION OF A TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN THE PROCESS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
The article discusses a current issue of modern pedagogical science - foreign language competence formation of a technical university student, which contributes to effective communication in the English language. The authors note that foreign language competence is a universal means of successful professional activity and self-realization of a technical university student. The article examines foreign language competence as a structural component of a technical university student's linguistic personality, the specificity which is in the fact that it acts as a means and basis for a technical university student's linguistic personality formation. Particular attention is paid to the requirements for the language training of a technical university student and the linguistic personality in the process of the English language professionally-oriented teaching.