The key competence of professional communication of a specialist of any profile is communicative competence - communication skills in professional situations. A modern specialist solves communication problems, using a foreign language as a means within the framework of his professional competence. Therefore, such forms of professional communication as negotiation, business correspondence, business conversation by phone, meetings and press conferences, negotiations and presentations, as well as everyday communication with foreign specialists, require serious special training. In the formation of communicative competence, the defining approaches are communicative and personality-oriented, which are aimed at the gradual formation of a culture of language communication among students.