CRITERIA AND INDICATORS FOR EFFICIENCY OF HIGHER SCHOOL STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of formation of higher school students’ communicative competence. To solve this problem the main criteria and indicators were worked out which contribute to the development of this competence. Such key notions as communicative knowledge, communicative skills are revealed in the article. The results described in the article were obtained by means of such methods as Common European Framework of Reference Levels, communication skills test by A.A. Korelin, test for determination of the level of communicative skills. The authors present a generalized characteristics of the structure of higher school students’ communicative competence. The use of interactive teaching technologies contributing to the foreign language communication competence of students is seen as solution of the problem.