Communicative behavior as a component of the content of foreign language teaching in universities

The article deals with the analysis of the concept of the communicative behavior of the modern specialist. There are revealed the key characteristics and the spheres of the implementation. There are analyzed the communicative and sociocultural approaches to the designing and implementation of the communication in the foreign language environment and the concept of the “modelling of the communicative behavior”. The author describes the basic factors of the definition of the models of the communicative behavior including the communicative situation, the communicative sphere, the aim of communication and the speech etiquette.