FORMING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS LEARNING THE GERMAN ? LANGUAGE AT HIGHER SCHOOL

The article focuses the attention of the reader on the importance of forming professional competence of students in higher school. The author believes that the process of teaching and learning a foreign language could be an effective tool to raise the level of professional culture of the participants of the educational environment. The positive results are likely to be achieved using a particular approach based on special exercises worked out by the authors and authentic language materials to improve language skills.