STYLISTIC COMPETENCE AS A COMPONENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article substantiates the necessity of forming stylistic competence at English lessons at school. The article is based on the thesis that efficient communication in a foreign language is impossible without taking into account the stylistic factor, the ignorance of which may lead to a communication failure. The proposed definition of stylistic competence is correlated with the content of foreign language communicative competence, the formation of which represents the aim of teaching English at school. The paper also indicates the place of stylistic competence in the structural model of foreign language communicative competence and describes its proficiency levels that range from basic to upper-intermediate. The article also reveals the role of interdisciplinary connections in forming skills for decoding implicitly expressed stylistically marked information and following norms of functional styles in written and oral communication in the English language. The analysis of the content of textbooks recommended for educational institutions of various types reveals their linguistic and didactic potential for the formation of stylistic competence.