COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AS A MODERN EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME

The paper contains the results of the study on the problem of formation and development of the key modern educational outcome – communicative competence. After examining methodological and scientific literature on the subject, the author has presented different interpretation of the definitions of communicative competence and expertise. The author also represents their own vision and gives the definition of these concepts. In addition, the author explores the question of the structure of communicative competence, which still has no unique solution. Based on the statements of scientists, the author offers an effective structure of communicative competence based on its definition. Understanding of the concept and structure of communicative competence has given the author an opportunity to explore the issue of its formation, because it has been insufficiently studied in the educational environment of secondary professional education. The author suggests methods and ways of formation of communicative skills on the basis of professional specifics of the graduates. Based on these considerations, the author has created an integrative literature course for students of vocational institutions. The main method of communicative competence formation within this course is the case-study method. The paper gives examples of cases in the discipline «Literature». Having denoted modern methods of formation of communicative competence, the author states that to achieve the educational outcome it is required to have the system of its diagnostics and evaluation of formation. This system was tested and approved in the educational process of Nizhny Novgorod State University of Engineering and Economics in the course of the subject “Literature”.