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Evaluation of levels of professional English communicative competence of future journalists in the forming experiment

Evaluation of levels of professional English communicative competence of future journalists in the forming experiment

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Fluency in a foreign language, professional knowledge, skills, and abilities is becoming the essential qualities of modern journalists. This paper discusses the notion of English professional communicative competence of future journalists. The purpose of the research is to analyze the components of professional, and foreign communicative competence...

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