FORMATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITIESOF
The article deals with the issue of the professional component implementation in the process of foreign language training of future specialists in the field of sea and river transport by reading authentic texts on specialty. The author reveals the concept of professionally oriented communicative competence. The criteria for selecting textual material, the principles of teaching students to work with professionally oriented texts are listed. Methodological recommendations on the stages of educational and communicative activity of students in the context of the issue under study are presented.