Sociocultural Competence Development as Prerequisite for Future Public Administration Specialists’ Becoming

The article deals with sociocultural competence development as prerequisite of future civil servants’ becoming in the process of learning a foreign language. The aim of the article was to define the role of sociocultural competence in the process of future public administration specialists’ professional training. The authors of the article have made the analysis of domestic and foreign resources devoted to the issues of sociocultural competence, professional ethics, business speech etiquette, teaching foreign languages at non-linguistic universities, future professionals’ becoming. The authors give their own notion to the concepts "sociocultural competence", "business speech etiquette". The model for public administration specialists’ sociocultural competence development both offline and online are proposed.