Communicative Skills of Students as a Factor of Successful Socialization in the Professional Sphere

Abstract

Introduction. The article considers the content of the “communicability” notion as a key competence. In the modern world, communication skills are often perceived as essential ones. The need to integrate university knowledge explains the value of the research topic. We believe that the development of communication skills in the educational environment is of great importance. Moreover, a special attention should be given to the balanced combination of class and extracurricular activities at the university.Purpose. We will study future specialists’ integrative mechanism of communicability development, corresponding to the requests of employers.Materials and Methods. We used the following methods: Questionnaire to assess the basic parameters of teamwork, The Belbin test, the “Public Speaking Skill” Scale, as well as the “Criteria to Assess the Informativeness of Speech”, the “Criteria to Assess Persuasive Speech” and the “Self-Analysis of Public Speaking” methods.Results. We identified a priority of activity approach and individualization of the educational process, which are built on the active teaching methods providing the activation of students’ cognitive work. Thus, students who master the specified learning modules can correctly grade communicative situations, choose reasonable strategies of verbal behaviour for communicative situations on any level of discourse.Discussion and Conclusion. The development of communicative skills by future specialists is accomplished both in the study of various communication subjects and as a result of participation in extracurricular activities. This activity is associated with forms of university discipline work and is consolidated in the course of different practice classes.