Development of professional foreign language communicative competency of students as a goal of foreign language teaching in an agrarian university

In contemporary Federal State Education Standard of Higher Education in a number of agrarian university programmes, knowledge of a foreign language is presented in two competencies at once. At the same time, if earlier the goal of foreign language teaching at a university was the foreign language communicative competence development and all its subcompetencies in the social and socio-cultural spheres of communication, then modern Federal State Education Standard of Higher Education also focus on the communicative competence development in the professional sphere of communication. Such an expansion of the use of a foreign language as a means of communication has contributed to the designation of the professional foreign language communicative competency development as one of the main goals of professional foreign language teaching in an agrarian university. At the same time, scientists have not come to a consensus on the structure and component composition of professional foreign-language communicative competency. We consider the history of the issue on the example of programme “Technology of production and processing of agricultural products”, the structure and component composition of the professional foreign language communicative competency of agrarian university student are proposed. Structurally, the professional foreign-language communicative competency of students includes two components: a foreign language communicative and professional. A foreign language communicative consists of five subcompetencies: linguistic, speech, sociocultural, compensatory and educational-cognitive. The professional component includes knowledge in a specific sphere of professional activity and professional activities of specialists in a specific programme. This component will largely determine the content of teaching components of a foreign language communicative competence, adding professionally oriented subject content to the learning process, reflecting the features of specialists in the sphere of agricultural production and processing technology. In addition, as a level category, professional foreign language communicative competence of students consists of five components: value-motivational, cognitive, operational, communicative, reflective. The work describes in detail the content of these components.

content and language integrated learning, agrarian university, professional foreign language communicative competency, foreign language communicative competence