Abstract
This article is devoted to the role of the information educational environment in the formation of the professional communicative competence of a foreign language teacher. The informational educational environment is represented by the Internet and e-mail, the great opportunities of which in the improvement of foreign language communicative skills of students of language specialties are reflected in the article. The positions of researchers regarding the competence-based approach to learning are reviewed, and the concepts of competence and competence are analyzed. Much attention is paid to the didactic potential of information technologies, creating real conditions for the development and improvement of professional communicative competence, as well as the exchange of experience of specialists of various professions in general, students and teachers of foreign languages in particular. Based on the analysis of literary sources, the authors come to the conclusion that the informatization of the education system imposes certain requirements on the process of forming the professional communicative competence of future specialists.