The formation of a communicative competence of foreign graduate students in learning linguistic courses

This article aims at forming a communicative competence and critical thinking as a result of the selection and implementation of the principles and methods of teaching linguistic courses. The object of the research is a process of training philologists who are foreigners on modular master, s programmes. The article presents the requirements for the methodology of interrelated verbal and cogitative activity of the teacher and the students in the learning process.