Innovative technologies in the formation of future english teachers’ intercultural communicative competence

The article deals with the innovative teaching technologies as a means of the formation of English language communica-tion competence as an important component of future English teachers’ professionalism. The experiment was aimed at as-sessing the effectiveness of using a set of innovative teaching technologies for the development of the above mentioned compe-tence and involved 50 third-year students majoring in English philology who were divided into experimental and control groups. The following exercises were used in the survey as the examples of interactive teaching technologies: “Microphone”, “Brainstorm”, “Teaching and learning”, “Associative bush”, “Guess the question”, “Different perception”, “Describe my favorite cultural tradition”, “Idioms and proverbs”, “Pros and cons corners”, “Do you know the person?”, What’s appro-priate?”. According to the research results, the applied techniques contribute to the development of students’ communicative competence development and also encourage them for self-development.