Lecture. Role of foreign language professional and communicative competence in integrative process of formation of linguistic personality of a specialist

International foreign language communication has become an essential component of professional activity of specialists. Therefore, foreign language training should be profession-oriented. Thus, being an indispensable component of general education, foreign language is an integral part of a qualitative vocational education. In terms of competence-oriented approach professional competences of engineering specialists concerning a foreign language, among which a communicative competence is a leading one, are basic competences and integrate common cultural, intellectual, social and professional qualities of a personality providing the effective establishment of business contacts, the solution of specific professional tasks. Profession-oriented approach in teaching foreign languages allows to obviate the entire set of psychological, linguistic and social difficulties related to the formation of the personality of a student as an independent thinker, a manager of their own learning process capable of creativity and innovations .

Hence, there is a need to form a personality of a student through the closest connection between the foreign language and specialized disciplines and understanding by the learners the applied purpose of foreign language.