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The paper enlarges on the concept of a multilingual approach to teaching foreign languages to students of a technical university and developing their multilingual communicative competence. The multilingual system of education is considered by the author as a complex educational structure of a humanitarian nature, which is aimed at developing a multicultural personality of engineering students. From this perspective, the paper substantiates the role and place of multilingual communicative competence among other professional competencies meant for the future engineers and, as a result, lays the basis for a certain scientific novelty. The author defines the goal of mastering multilingual communicative competence, aimed at achieving success related to the competitiveness of multilingual university graduates in the global labor market. This interaction is based on multilingual, multicultural knowledge, as well as skills and abilities that specify the content of the professional, intercultural, communicative and strategic components in the structure of communicative competence. Besides, the results of the research make it possible to distinguish a number of other competencies that are improved in the process of multilingual education. The conducted study proves that the integration of this type of training into the content of technical students’ foreign-language teaching is not only possible but also promising.
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Prokhorova, A. (2020). Multilingual Communicative Competence of Future Engineers: Essence, Structure, Content. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_2
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