Keyword: «иностранный язык»

The dominance of the highly informative methods of teaching foreign languages at non-linguistic universities and the lack of use of technology of project activities in a foreign language, which enables to develop communicative skills of future specialists as the basis of their readiness for intercultural communication, determine the relevance of the research in the article. The aim of the research is the theoretical substantiation, development and testing of experimental models by means of communicative skills formation in students of non-linguistic universities during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The article was prepared on the basis of the following methods use: analysis, questionnaire, interview, observation, survey, pedagogical observation and generalization of personal teaching experience, experimental teaching in student groups, method of expert evaluations, ranking, analysis of students’ project work products, pedagogical experiment, and statistical methods. According to the results, the paper presents theoretical and practical justification of the need to develop the model of communicative skills formation among students of non-linguistic universities during implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that it defines the structure of communicative skills in the implementation of project activities in a foreign language; it identifies and justifies the directions of project activities in a foreign language for students of a non-linguistic university, contributing to the effective formation of their communicative skills during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language. The practical significance of the research results: a set of training tasks has been developed aimed at the formation of communicative skills among students of a non-linguistic university during the implementation of project activities in a foreign language; the content of projects for students of non-linguistic universities was worked out; a set of diagnostic materials was worked out to evaluate the results of project-oriented learning activities of students of a non-linguistic university while learning a foreign language.