Abstract
This article considers aspects of the formation of communicative competence among students of the Pedagogical Faculty of Foreign Languages. In connection with the new requirements for graduates of linguistic universities, there is a need to train teaching staff of a new formation, capable of communication in various fields. This article talks about the training of specialists in a foreign language sectoral education, namely, the humanitarian, economic, natural science areas. For the development of the communicative competence of students of the Pedagogical Faculty of Foreign Languages in different directions, the staff of the Department of Methods of Foreign Language Education developed and introduced into the educational process Teaching aids (Communication workshops) in the three above-mentioned areas of training. These workshops contain the necessary content for the formation and development of students' communicative competence - communicative situations, role-playing games, problematic issues for discussion, case studies, project technologies, and more. Approbation of the developed teaching aids has shown its effectiveness in conducting practical classes and contributed to the development of students' communication skills in foreign language sectoral education.