INTELLECTUAL COMPETITIONS AS A TOOL FOR FORMING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article studies the process of developing foreign language communicative competence in students through preparation and participation in various competitions in a foreign language. The article examines the concepts of communicative competence of several foreign authors; the theoretical model of M. Canale and M. Swain is chosen as the methodological basis for this study, which identifies the components of communicative competence: grammatical, sociolinguistic, discursive and strategic. The article, based on the material of the most frequent tasks of foreign language competitions, describes and substantiates the influence of participation in intellectual competitions as one of the types of extracurricular activities on the formation of foreign language communicative competence. Competitive tasks allow working out not only the lexical and grammatical component of communicative competence, but also, what is more valuable, the sociocultural and strategic component, thanks to the ability of students to use language in various communicative situations.