DISCUSSIONS AND PHILOLOGICAL TASKS AS A MEANS OF FORMING THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS OF PHILOLOGY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of ways to form communicative competence of foreign philology students. The article presents results of an experiment, the purpose of which is to determine the effectiveness of using such forms of work as discussion and solving heuristic philological problems in the process of developing the communicative competence of foreign philology students. The main attention is paid to principles of complex application of selected forms of work as a condition for activation of the totality of intellectual and psychological abilities of students and thus achieving the most effective results. The experiment is conducted at the Polar Academy Institute of the Russian State Hydrometeorological University in the 2020-2022 academic years among 2- and 3-year-students majoring in Philology, focus (profile) “National Philology (for foreign students)”. As a result of the experiment, it is possible to find out that the systematic use of these forms of work contributes to the successful development of the communicative competence of foreign philology students.