FORMATION OF ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS STUDENTS

Abstract

Nowadays it is necessary to find effective techniques of teaching foreign languages. The article studies the ways of formation the English communicative competence of the Phylology students of higher educational establishments. Approaches to the definition of the notion of communicative competence, its contents and structure are considered.
Communicative language teaching is understood as a set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the roles of teachers and learners in the classroom. It is defined that the process of teaching students in higher educational establishments should be organized on the basis of the communicative approach: knowledge of English depends on the competence and ability to use it depending on the situation. It is stated that the communicative approach to learning increases the students’ motivation to acquire a foreign language and improves the efficiency of teaching.
Communicative competence includes the following aspects of language knowledge: knowing how to use language for a range of different purposes / functions and vary the use of language according to the setting and the participants; knowing how to produce and understand different types of texts and how to maintain communication despite having limitations in one’s language knowledge (e.g., through using different kinds of communication strategies). The students want to master English to a higher level of accuracy and fluency to improve their further communicative skills in order to effectively carry out communication in the foreign language.