Keyword: «common european framework of reference»

The article discusses the components of a foreign language communicative competence and briefly describes the ways of their development. Foreign language competence is divided into linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic competencies. Learning a foreign language is not thorough enough if you miss at least one of them because each of the above-mentioned competencies has its own functions covering the most important branches of linguistics. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to all components of a foreign language communicative competences in the learning process .