FOREIGN LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FORMATION BY THE STUDENTS OF NON-LINGUISTIC SPECIALITIES IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH DICTIONARIES

The article deals with the problem of formation of students’ foreign language knowledge and skills, which are the foreign language competence components, in the process of working with dictionaries. The content of foreign language communicative competence has been revealed in combination and relationship of the following competencies: language (linguistic), speech (communicative) and socio-cultural (geographic and linguistic-geographic). The necessity of students’ dictionaries activity for learning pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, word formation, and also for defining lexical meaning of a word has been grounded. The special attention has been spared to students’ practical dictionary activities aimed at phonetic, orthographic, lexical and grammatical knowledge and skills formation. The process of foreign language knowledge and skills development in the different types of speech activity such as speaking, listening, reading and writing has been analyzed.