COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AS THE MAIN AIM OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND BASIC FEATURES OF GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE AS ITS SIGNIFICANT

Abstract

The article considers the nature, aim and advantage of the concept of communicative competence in the modern theory and practice of a foreign language teaching, basically aimed at acquiring skills of authentic foreign language communication. While doing it, the author treats separately basic features of grammatical competence as its significant component. In particular, the author identifies and describes six components of the structure of the foreign language communicative competence (linguistic, sociolinguistic, discursive, sociocultural, social and training and learning). The authors as well disclose their standpoint on an extended interpretation of the nature of grammatical competence as one of the most significant components of communicative competence. The author concludes that it is only with the interconnected development of all these components that students can speak of achieving the leading goal of learning a foreign language in school.