The role of authentic material as a means of developing students’ competence in foreign language lessons

Abstract

The article discusses current issues of using authentic video materials to form communicative competence of students. The author describes linguistic, sociological, discursive, and socio-cultural components in the structure of communicative competence. The article considers communication barriers and their influence on the communication process. Also, it highlights criteria and indicators of the process of forming socio-cultural competence. The author considers the criteria of authenticity from the point of view of linguistic authors. The author describes the value and role of information and communication technologies in teaching a business foreign language. There is given the characteristic of authentic video material as the most effective way of
forming and developing the socio-cultural competence of students. There are formulated the main tasks that are considered in the learning process when using authentic video materials.