Development of communicative competence of students studying ecology

Abstract

In the context of modernisation of national education and the priority of professional competences possession, a high level of communicative skills of future environmental engineers ensures the graduate’s readiness to adapt to practical engineering activities in constantly changing conditions. An important component of the future environmental engineer’s professional readiness is their foreign language professionally oriented communicative competence, which implies the graduate’s communication skills in oral and written forms in a foreign language to solve professionally oriented tasks. The urgent necessity of forming this competence in the structure of engineers’ professional competence is conditioned by the integration of the national technological sector into the world economy, the need to meet modern requirements to the quality of engineers’ training and the level of their foreign-language professionally orientated communicative competence. The article substantiates the necessity of formation of future engineers’ foreign-language professionally orientated communicative competence. The aspects of formation of engineers’ foreign language communicative competence as a necessary component in the structure of integrative characteristic of professional competence of a specialist, which allows communication with representatives of other cultures at the international level, are considered. The practical significance of the research lies in the fact that the methods of enhancing communicative competence in foreign language classes described in the article can be used in pedagogical activities to improve the educational process in the field of linguistics and in the field of theory and methodology of teaching foreign language to environmental students.