DISCUSSION AS THE MEANS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE FORMATION

Abstract

The paper presents the analysis of the contemporary approaches to determine stages that are essential
for teaching discussion and argues the necessity of distinguishing stages in the discussion teaching
grounded on the problem-based situation; constitutes requirements for the discussion exercises which
develop students’ mental activity, appeal to various types of the memory, encourage students’ unprompted
speaking; proves the idea of considering discussion as the one of most significant means to develop English
language communicative competence; presents an original set of assignments developed on the authentic
video and reading materials to teach discussion grounded on the problem-based situation.