Competence Approach to Teaching Foreign Language to Students of Establishments of Higher Education

The aim of the article -to differentiate and reveal the essence of the concepts of «competence» and «competency», determine the relationship between them, consider communicative competence and communicative competency as their components and provide the basic classifications of communicative competencies.To identify the range of competencies which are developed in foreign language lessons and are the ultimate goal of teaching and mastering the language.To describe the methods of developing foreign language communicative competency of students of establishments of higher education of non-linguistic specialties.Much attention is paid to the main characteristics of key competencies among which the most important one is communicative competency in the research.Mastering communicative competency in various types of speech activities and areas of communication with a purpose to further communicative activity is a relevant object of the reserach of such sciences as