In recent years, in line with the communicative and especially cognitive-communicative approaches in native and foreign language methodology, the problem of developing communicative competence "as the main component of the professional qualifications competency of the modern specialist" is being actively pursed. At the same time, monitoring the process of teaching foreign language (FL) in educational establishments sows that students do not possess the most important skills of communicative

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... etence. Often students are not able to consistently and persuasively express their point of view, replacing the logic of the arguments with unsubstantiated statements and do not have the specific lexis and cannot participate in the professional communications. From this it follows that the development of communicative competence skills should be seen as a purposeful process that requires considerable pedagogical effort.