Peculiarities of formation of metaphorical competence of Russian-speaking students learning English language

The present article explores metaphorical competence of students of faculty of modern foreign languages and literature who learn English as the basic foreign language. Metaphorical competence, the ability to understand and to reproduce metaphor, is one of the key directions in modern studies of metaphor. Correlation of metaphorical competence with the level of language competence is also studied in the article.