Communicative competency as ability and readiness of the cadets to foreign conversation

This paper is devoted to the question of the development of the communicative competency at the English lessons in the departmental institutes of the FPS of Russia. At present much attention in education is paid to competencies development process that goes to show the effectiveness of the competency-based approach in this country. Under this approach the priority is given to the new style professionals’ training. Such professionals are able to cope with all professional problems quickly and in a proper way using all their knowledge, abilities, skills and experience. This approach is a basis for totally new education which provides the improvement of occupation mobility and adaptability of our graduates. It brings them an opportunity to be at the forefront of the latest developments and innovation and foresee all possibilities of the situation. In the paper the definition of the communicative competency is revealed as ability and readiness of the cadets to foreign conversation. Much emphasis is made to the fact that both formation of the internal readiness and ability to foreign conversation may be the basis for successful communicative competency development.