This article deals with the professional and communicative competence of a foreign language teacher and its didactic significance and the use of a communicative technique dictated by the laws of any learning as well as the formation of students' foreign language communicative competence in the full scope.

Communicative competence, professional competence, didactic significance, foreign language

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