Theoretical foundations of communicative-speaking training of social workers in higher school

A theoretical overview of the concepts of "communicating", "communication", and "communicative skills" is made in the article, and their role in the process of communicative-speaking training of future social workers to professional activity is substantiated. It is noted that the main components of communicative skills of a future social worker are an ability to navigate in a communicative situation, to speak, to listen to, to understand the interlocutor, tomake a feedback, to overcome communicative barriers. In the process of formation of professional and communicative skills of future social workers, it is necessary to take into account not only the general communicative skills that any person owns regardless of his profession, but also the specifics of his or her professional activities. In particular, attention should be paid on the purpose and content of communication and to the relationship between participants of the communicative process.