The types of competencies began to increase in the scientific literature with the development of the theory and practice of competence-based approach in higher education. The problem of the development of key competences has arisen which are applied universally in a variety of situations. Theoretical foundations of key competencies and their features in developing the communicative competence of students in a foreign language in their professional domains are analyzed in the article. The modern methodology of teaching a foreign language is based on the following principles of the competence-based approach to teaching oral speech which serve as the theoretical basis for the development of integrative modules for teaching a foreign language.

Foreign language communicative competence, modular training

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