FORMATION OF STUDENT’S COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ON THE BASIS OF LMS MOODLE

According to the Federal state educational standard, studying foreign languages is aimed at achieving goals, connected with developing communicative competency, ability and readiness for independent continuous learning a foreign language and using a foreign language in other fields of knowledge. With this objective in mind, the paper evaluates the efficiency of using LMS Moodle resources in teaching and stresses their role for modern language development in general. The paper also mentions the vital importance of using a foreign language in professional training of future specialists. It points out that using LMS Moodle in teaching implies developing communicative competence of engineering students.
The paper presents the results of research, aimed at studying the essence of such notions as «communicative competence» and «foreign language communicative competence». It also determines the methodological basis of the research, comprised by pedagogical and psychological theories and Russian and foreign theories of professional education and the concept of pedagogical integration. The analysis of research allowed to identify the structure of communicative competency, noting its variety, as well as the composition of foreign language speaking communicative competency by characterizing its constituent competencies.
The paper also mentions the advantages of LMS Moodle platform, used in teaching English in engineering higher educational institutions, and points to the viability of using blended learning. The paper presents planning of classes on particular topics and identifying kinds of teaching activities and means of students’ knowledge and skills control using LMS Moodle interactive tools.

competence, communicative competence, foreign language communicative competence, language communicative competence, LMS Moodle platform.