Preparation for international examination as means of forming technical student’s communicative competence

Bernshteyn Victoria L., Bernshteyn Maria M.

the article theoretically analyses the main factors influencing the formation of productive reading skills as a component of foreign language communicative competence. It gives the reasons for lack of skills to elicit information from technical and business texts by students - non-linguists. The article analyses the main problems of preparation for international Business English Vantage examination for students studying on Bachelor and Master Programs “International management”. It is defined that for the development of the ability to understand the gist of the text it is necessary to include systematic teaching of unprepared reading in the classroom activities. Student’s performance has to be based not only on special exercises, classroom practice and additional language material, but includes elements of time-management and regular expanding of professional vocabulary.

Keywords:meaning, text, BEC Vantage examination, reading techniques, algorithm of development.