Developing speech and verbal competencies of university students

This paper proves the need to develop verbal skills of students during their training at the university. Modern labor market and effective communication skills are a must for future professionals. Therefore, the task of developing professional verbal competences must be solved at the university level when teaching humanities and vocational courses. After analyzing the educational programs offered by some Russian universities, we discovered a lack of attention to the issue of developing speech competencies of future professionals. Despite the existing theoretical and practical implications of the problem, many aspects remain insufficiently developed. The retrospective analysis of the philosophical, psychological and pedagogical reference sources and real educational practices in higher school makes it possible to identify the following conditions for developing speech competences of future professionals, such as including an objective to develop speech competences in the list of vocational training objectives; providing a technology for developing speech competences; ensuring the continuity of language courses; implementing a student-oriented approach; modifying the existing methods of speech training for artistic professions (singers, actors, etc...