Developing Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Students by Means of Art Pedagogy

The relevance of the topic is caused by searching for new technologies and instruments of both psychological and pedagogical activities in the field of methodology of teaching foreign languages in the higher educational institutions of Ukraine. It is aimed at improving productivity, thus, it results in working with students. The main attention is focused on the research of modern art technologies as the means of art therapy and art pedagogy. The purpose of using them is to increase students’ motivation to study foreign languages, reveal their individualities and creative potential, as well as to overcome possible psychological and language barriers during the development of foreign language communicative competence. The history of the terms "art therapy" and "art pedagogy" is viewer in the article. It reveals the peculiarities, methods, functions and possible ways of implementing art technologies in the educational process of higher educational institutions during teaching foreign languages. Art therapy and art pedagogy are being considered as separate methods to identify the best possible ways of their use with students of higher educational institutions at the lessons of English. It will lead to increasing students’ motivation and assist to improve their study success rate, especially gaining necessary skills of foreign language communicative competence. The conceptual and terminological apparatus is investigated, which allows defining clearly the specifics of the concepts "communicative competence" and "foreign language communicative competence". The main components and functions of communicative competence are distinguished, as well as the key competences that form foreign language communicative competence.