Development of foreign students’ communication skills

The article explores the ways professional language competence is being acquired and further developed by foreign students. It discusses conditions required for the students to master special terminology at the initial stage of learning, ways and means to learn professional vocabulary when beginners. The author has analyzed basic elements of these constituents of the learning process. She has described communicative means which contribute to successful development of foreign students' professional communicative competence.

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