Foreign language communication competence as a factor of personal development

- Чиханцова, О.А. (orcid.org/0000-0002-2661-3265) (2019) Foreign language communication competence as a factor of personal development Актуальні проблеми психології, 16 (6). pp. 279-286. ISSN 2072-4772

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Abstract

Life in this century has provided people with diversity and possibility in communication with the corresponding increase in intercultural communication. Therefore, foreign language teaching and learning in universities should not only be instrumental, but it should set a new goal to train students with intercultural communicative competence to meet the needs of our globalized world. The field of foreign language learning has been an issue of debate for a long time. With the later trends in language teaching approaches and methodology, communicative competence has become the main aim for foreign language learning. The article deals with the role of foreign language communicative competence and the problem of forming foreign language skills in communication that influence on the development of the person in the process of education in higher education institutions. Communicative competence means having ‘a competence to communicate’. This competence can be oral, written or even nonverbal. It is an inclusive term that refers to possessing the knowledge of the language as well as the skill to use the language in real life situations for fulfilling communicative needs. It is determined that communicative competence implies the appropriate skills, the formation of which is a prerequisite for learning a foreign language in the educational environment. The results of the experiment allowed us to establish the psychological specificity of the process of mastering a foreign language. Communicative competence is considered as a factor of personal development in the process of effective mastering of foreign languages. Foreign communicative competence is a recent notion and there is no clear consensus about what it is. Sometimes this term is referred to as global competence, international competence, multicultural competence, and so forth.

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