SPEECH CULTURE AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF A BILINGUAL

Abstract

The principal purpose of the given article is to show the connection between speech culture and the communicative competence of a bilingual. The concept of speech culture includes not just the ability to choose and organize language tools that in a certain communication situation help achieve communication objectives, but also contributes to the observance of communication ethics. The article considers speech culture as one of the most important components of a person's spiritual life in society, as well as communicative competence of a bilingual in terms of their ability and readiness for intercultural and interlanguage communication with native speakers of another language.

The article attempts to compare the dictionary information of the components related to communicative competence offered by the state standard in relation to a foreign language. They include speech or sociolinguistic ones: types of speech activity; language or linguistic: language aspects; socio-cultural: knowledge of behavior norms in the country of the language being studied. As well as knowledge of a country-specific nature, etiquette and behavior norms, value orientations; compensatory one: gestures, the use of another language; educational and cognitive one - the study of the strategy related to the work with information, with theory provisions of intercultural communication, according to which communicative competence includes four components:

1) Grammatical competence (knowledge of a combination of words and rules); 2) sociolinguistic competence (appropriateness); 3) discursive competence (cohesion and coherence); 4) strategic competence (the use of communicative strategies appropriate to the situation).

The theoretical significance of the work is determined by the increased interest in the study of communicative and speech competence, competence concept under consideration is clarified. The research results’ practical importance lies in the possibility of their application in the practice of teaching Russian in a national audience.