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Nowadays, at the time of emergence of global educational environment and rise in scientific and professional mobility, the English language, which has become a language of the global academic community, appears to determine the development of most educational programmes in higher education institutions. As a result, the majority of Russian universities have to reconsider their goals, objectives as well as the contents of most educational programmes in the English language. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (hereinafter – TPU), one of the leading and researchintensive technological universities in Western Siberia, Russia, has declared English language proficiency as one of the essential requirements for its research and academic staff. English appears to enable the employees to carry out their professional activities more efficiently, ensures a high level of scientific research, allows establishing international contacts and facilitates interaction in the multicultural academic environment. In particular, as an integral part of scientific and educational activity the university academic staff should be able to perform the following professional tasks through the medium of English: • to deliver lectures in English for home and international students; • to carry out business correspondence and hold oral negotiations; • to make and deliver reports at various international scientific events; • to write scientific papers; and to work on scientific projects or do research in collaboration with international colleagues. These types of activities ensure the university to perform more global and crucial tasks – university’s competitive growth among other universities worldwide in such spheres as attracting international students, improving the quality of scientific research, etc. The activities aimed to increase English language usage in all spheres of the university life at TPU underpinned the Decree presented in the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University Programme for Promoting its Competiveness (the so-called Roadmap) for 2013–2020. In accordance with the Programme, ‘by 2020 linguistic academic and social environment of the University will include two equal components: the Russian language and the English language, the latter renowned for being the language of world science’ [1, p. 46]. By 2020, the percentage of students and the staff with a sufficient level of the English language proficiency should be 100 % [1, p.62] and the percentage of research and teaching staff members having publications indexed in the Web of Science or Scopus databases should be equal to 90 % [1, p. 53]. Thus, it tends to be that modern Russian universities often have special requirements for student and academic staff production, owing to the fact that the present-day society needs highly-qualified specialists who are well-equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge, able to speak foreign languages, navigate D. F. Mymrina, M. O. Abdrashitova, E. O. Zakharova. Developing Foreign Language Communicative Competence

DEVELOPING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF AT A TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY