Аннотация
The modern educational system is aimed at not the acceptance of ready-made knowledge but self-searching. The amount of information required for the work of a modern specialist is growing day by day, so a graduate must always be in the process of development and improvement. Formation of young people who are able to communicate freely in any environment, who can express thoughts in a systematic and meaningful foreign language and who have fully mastered the skills to be found in each growing generation in the twenty-first century are the demands of competitiveness in the midst of increasing international relations. In order to achieve these demands, students have the task of forming academic communicative competence. The article studies the essence of academic communicative competence and deals with the possibility of free communication in a foreign language in an academic environment. The article covers the information about formation of academic communicative competence and authors adopted sub-competences of academic communicative competence agreeing with earlier scientists` researches. It also takes a look at the formation of the academic communicative competence and current usage and importance of it. The majority of the devoted courses and researches on this issue are dedicated to academic writing which shows necessity of improving academic communication in oral speech. This paper explores possibilities of formation academic communicative competence through forming set of sub-competences.