THE FORMATION OF FOREIGN COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE CONDITIONS OF VIRTUAL EDUCATION

Nowadays, virtual interaction between a teacher and a student is considered to be a normal everyday process. The pandemic that broke out in 2020 became a turning point, since the virus that spread around the world led to the transformation of major spheres of human life. It had a critical influence on the system of education, which meant that teachers had to quickly adapt to virtual interaction with students and to be able to assess their academic achievement under the conditions of virtual educational environment. There are certain changes in the field of communication. Today, online meetings, online conferences, and even online corporate events are part of modern reality that seemed unbelievable only a year ago. It is known that the main goal of teaching a foreign language is to form the communicative competence. This aim was mainly achieved through live communication and emotional contact between the teacher and students striving to develop their language skills. The authors of this article paid special attention to the analysis of the main ways of introduction of the communicative activity approach, which is traditionally considered as the theoretical basis for foreign language teaching. The authors dealt with the problem of formation of the communicative competence under the conditions of virtual educational environment. (C) 2020 Published by European Publisher.