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43 UDC 378.091.12:81'243:316.77 Perova Svitlana PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Serezhenko Yevhenii PhD student INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS The professional activity of a foreign language teacher at the contemporary stage necessitates the formation of competencies required for the execution of professional duties in a foreign language, considering cultural and linguistic factors, as well as the specific features of the language-based worldview. The professional training of future foreign language teachers is unattainable without their mastery of a high level of inter-ethnic and interpersonal relations, coupled with respect for the languages and traditions of representatives of other cultures. Despite the fact that the concept of intercultural communicative competence is quite widespread in academic literature, this phenomenon has not been fully explored, as scholars are unable to reach a common understanding of it and attribute varying content to its meaning. Moreover, a number of contradictions arise regarding the terminology reflecting this concept. Thus, intercultural communicative competence may appear in such variations as: transcultural competence, intercultural literacy, intercultural effectiveness, sociocultural competence, ethnocultural competence, cross-cultural competence, and intercultural competence. Therefore, the essence and structure of the intercultural communicative competence of future foreign language teachers will be defined based on the genesis of such key concepts as: "culture," "intercultural communication," "intercultural competence," and "intercultural communicative competence."