The pedagogical basis for the formation of a culture of professional foreign language communication of students in the system of higher education

The article deals with the pedagogical basis for the formation of a culture of professional foreign language communication of students in the system of higher education. The purpose of the article is to theoretically analyze promising areas for improving the training of future specialists among which the culture of professional communication is of key importance. The insufficient development of ways, methods and means of formation in pedagogy determines the relevance of the research topic. The article reveals the content of communication culture as an indicator of the student's abilities and skills to carry out their relationships with other people, to transmit and assimilate the necessary information, to perceive, understand their interlocutor and interact with him/her correctly. The article analyzes the structural components of the culture of foreign language communication: communicative, interactive and perceptual, as well as functional components: cognitive, expressive, regulatory. The key aspect of the article is the basic principles of forming a foreign language communication culture which include the principle of unity of integration and differentiation, the principle of dialogicity, the principle of «incompleteness», and the «possibility» of the individual. In addition, the main conclusion reached by modern researchers is that the formation of communication culture is the objective process that depends on the awareness of it as a professional training of a specialist and its conceptual and technological support. The article analyzes the possibilities of using the discipline «Foreign Language» in the formation of students' professional communication culture in Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. The article considers the pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of forming a culture of foreign language communication of students in the system of an educational institution. Such forms of teaching as seminar, practical lesson, lesson-dialogue, lesson-discussion, lesson-conference, active teaching methods – discussion, game, problem method, methods of social and psychological training and self-regulation are described. The professional and communicative environment which is a pedagogical condition for the effective formation of students' communication culture is defined. It is summarized that the formation of pedagogical grounds for the culture of professional foreign language communication of students should become one of the priority areas of pedagogical work during their professional training in higher education institutions.