communicative competence

The article contains the results of empirical research in revealing of social-psychological peculiarities of interpersonal communication of students of Psychology department. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the students of Psychology department during the process of interpersonal communication use, in contrast to the students of other departments, more pliable and less conflict provoking strategies of behaviour, they are inclined to cooperate with others and ready to understand them, are willing to make a compromise.

The necessity to form foreign language communication culture of intending teachers is predetermined, on the one hand, by the importance of authentic speech behavior in the framework of intercultural communication, and, on the other hand, by the complex nature of communicative competence, which is an important element of professional and pedagogical competence of the teacher.