DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPEECH COMPETENCE TO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

The article considers the content-structural essence of the speech competence of the individual and its significance. Special attention is focused on the necessity to comprehensively study and model the process of forming the competence studied in the article, because the degree of mastering the speech competence reflects the professional and personal level of development of the specialist, and the competence itself occupies a special place among the components of linguistic education. The phenomenality of the speech competence is emphasized: it is the result of the educational process, on the one hand, and the most important means of education, on the other. Various approaches to the definition of concepts are analyzed: “speech competence”, “language personality”, “speech activity”; the complexity of their natural affinity are proved. The speech competence characterizes the level of development of a language personality, it is the result of mastering of the speech activity by a person, initiates it and at the same time improves it in the process of this activity, because it is the basis of communication and evolves in the process of communication