Keyword: «fostering of communicative culture»

The article discusses the issues of raising a communicative culture in the course of professional foreign language training for students of technical universities. The relevance of the problem under study is due to the fact that society needs specialists whose competences (professional, general professional and universal) meet the requirements of national and international labor markets and contribute to the subsequent successful employment of a technical university graduates. An analysis of the pedagogical literature allows us to conclude that in modern conditions the formation of universal (general cultural) competences plays an important role, since the main goal of the educational process is not only the preparation of competitive specialists, but also the formation of a system of values and moral qualities in them. In this regard, a pedagogical experiment was conducted at the Foreign Languages Chair of the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, the purpose of which was to increase the level of communication culture among students of non-linguistic specialties. To achieve this goal, the following theoretical methods were used: systematic study and analysis of psychological, pedagogical, scientific and methodological literature, materials of international scientific and practical conferences, generalization, comparison; empirical methods: observation, questionnaire, interview, assessment and self-assessment, analysis of the pedagogical experiment results, their psychological and pedagogical interpretation. A number of measures have been worked out (and partially implemented) aimed at improving the general culture of students and the culture of speech in particular. The main results of the work: students express their thoughts in the classroom and in conversations with the teacher more competently (in accordance with the norms of literary Russian language), which has a positive effect on the process of professional foreign language training of students; the number of students who have a negative attitude to using foul language in public places has increased, actively defending their point of view in discussions; the general cultural level of students increased thanks to extracurricular activities that stimulated a growing interest of students in the history, culture of our country and countries of the world. The materials of the study may be used in the educational work of universities that train engineering specialists.