FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AS THE BASIS OF STUDYING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The globalization of human activity in general and educational activity in particular increasinglyrequires the development of foreign-language communicative competence.Communicative competence refers to the ability to understand, create and interpret various communicativeevents, taking into account not only their explicit meaning (which seems more direct to us), but also its consequences;that is, what the speaker wants to say, what the listener wants to understand, the relations, social context, etc.Therefore, communicative competence is associated with social, cultural and psychological rules that determine theuse of a particular language in a particular situation.Language is used for self-expression, creative thinking, problem solving, but the most significant languageusage is for communication. What makes it difficult to use the language system to communicate with other people isthe fact that the individual’s ability to interact with others through language (oral and written communication) isunique to each person and at the same time is a universal human skill that distinguishes humans from animals.The successful use of a language for communication involves the development of the communicativecompetence of users of this language, which is limited by the sociocultural norms of the society where this languageis used. What special sociocultural norms should be observed by using a foreign language for internationalcommunication? Or are these universal norms prevailing over individual societies and cultures?Culturally determined differences lead to a special kind of communication, called foreign language, in whichcommunicators from different cultures use special language options and discursive strategies, compromise approaches andknowledge about the cultural characteristics of the interlocutor with direct contact. Culture is a set of phenomenaassociated with human values and formed for the sake of these values. If the most general concept of the natural sciencesis the concept of nature as the being of things, then the most general concept of the humanities is the concept of culture asthe social being of human.