Foreign language and forming the students’ (cadets’) socio-cultural competence

The article deals with the problem of forming the socio-cultural competence by means of a foreign language that is a very important aspect of a personality development, because exactly society and culture are the main and direct factor of their formation. It is stated that the socio-culturaldevelopment of a future specialist is worth to consider being the necessary element of their professional education. This process embraces a certain level of forming the valuables and valuable orientations which are the regulators of the personality life activity and behaviour. It is underlined that the social and communicative skills of the future specialists should include not only the pragmatic aspects, but the factor of a good command of the foreign language as a prestige component of general personal culture of a person, that makes it possible to define the foreign language communicative competence of the future specialists fuller. Without the good command of the foreign language and without the proper forming the socio-cultural competence the future specialist will not be able to carry out all the issues that will originate in their professional activity. The main issues of forming the foreign language socio-cultural competence which are researched by the scholars are outlined, among them are the general principles of developing the socio-cultural competence and the socio-cultural approaches to learning the foreign language, forming the socio-cultural competence in the different courses that are taught at the establishments of higher education. forming the socio-cultural competence of the students (cadets) of various specialities, etc.