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The present study has been undertaken in order to examine the efficacy of communicative competence development methodology applied to the teaching/learning process at tertiary level. The methods of the research comprise the overview of the theoretical sources related to the theme under discussion and a case study. Two groups of the third-year full-time Bachelor Programme students enrolled in the course of Written and Spoken Communication V participated in this research. One of the most important tasks of the course is communicative competence development. The teaching/learning process included different stages starting from the theme development, searching for materials, designing tasks to the analysis and evaluation of the students' performance (presentations, discussions, listening to dialogues, negotiation simulations, legal document creation in structured settings, etc), the students' and the teacher's reflection as well as the analysis of the interviews followed by recommendations for further transformation of the teaching/learning process to meet the needs and expectations of the students and develop the students' communicative competence more effectively. The results of the study indicated the strengths and weaknesses of the methodology of communicative competence development employed during the teaching/learning process. Furthermore, an attempt has been made to offer solutions to the methodological problems revealed during the research as well as propose recommendations for the educational setting arrangement aimed at increasing the efficacy of communicative competence development in the academic group of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A swift acceleration of global processes nowadays, intensification of new tendencies in world development call for setting new priorities in dynamically changing world. Providing security is a fundamental priority of international safety. So, all efforts must be concentrated on achieving the following basic aims: - Providing national safety, keeping and strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity. - Building favorable conditions for steady and dynamic growth, raising the standard of life. - Consolidating world peace, general security and stability. - Establishing good neighbourly relations. - Developing multilateral, mutually beneficial relations. - Rendering assistance in constructive dialogue and partnership in behalf of strengthening accord and mutual enrichment of different cultures and religions. - Popularizing cultural achievements of mankind and humanistic values. Literature has always been considered to be the privileged priority that people all over the world have created for a long period of their existence for intercultural communication. Literature is an art to see the world. Every piece of fiction is thought to be the form of indirect cross-cultural communication. The peculiarity of works of art are defined by the aims of the authors to create a figurative picture of the world reflecting national mentality, social, historic and cultural paradigm and the inner world of the people. A text is a form of discourse and comprehensive functional whole which reveals a great number of meanings within a cross-cultural system. It appears in unity of explicit and implicit, literal and figurative senses. The process of the interpretation of the text is multilevel: perception, cognition, understanding in the context of the national culture and interaction. The perception of literal works depends on many factors: communicative aims, background knowledge of both the author and the reader, specific character of ethnographic, historical, geographic, social phenomena. The cognition of realities of foreign culture in fiction gives evidence of national peculiarities between native and foreign cultures, requires knowledge of definite historical-cultural context. Otherwise, inadequate interpretation of phenomena of strange culture may arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]