INVARIANT STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF A SEAFARER

Abstract

The peculiarities of navigators’ labor functions determine the structure of a seafarer’s foreign language communicative competence (FCC) among students in the further professional training program “Business English for Seafarers” in terms of its objective and content components. FCC is considered as a personal quality of the subject of foreign language speech activity, which determines their readiness to carry out speaking, writing, listening, reading/translating as forms of foreign language communication. The structure of a seafarer’s FCC in this study is based on an invariant as a systemic-structural formation consisting of five functionally interrelated components: value-semantic, motivational, instrumental, individual-psychological and conative, and an invariant structure of the FCC of a technical university graduate has been developed based on the language, speech and sociocultural sub-competences.