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THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH IN DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF PHILOLOGY STUDENTS
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This article examines the role of the sociocultural approach in developing the communicative competence of philology students learning English as a foreign language. Drawing on Vygotsky's theory of mediated learning and the Zone of Proximal Development, the study argues that communicative competence is not merely an individual cognitive achievement but a socially constructed capacity that emerges through collaborative interaction, scaffolding, and culturally embedded language use. The article synthesizes theoretical positions from sociocultural theory and communicative competence models, and proposes pedagogical implications for organizing English language instruction at the higher education level. The findings suggest that classroom environments structured around peer collaboration, dialogic mediation, and authentic communicative tasks contribute significantly to learners' linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence
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