The study of foreign languages in modern society becomes an integral part of the professional training of specialists of various fields of activity, and their further career growth may largely depend on the degree of their language training. Studying the Ukrainian language as a foreign one contributes to the development of communicative competence, forms the student’s ability to use it as means of communication. At the center of the educational process for foreign students should be activities aimed at developing knowledge and communication skills in the Ukrainian language in a professional context. Its purpose is the formation and improvement of communication skills and abilities of students studying the Ukrainian language, that is, the ability to communicate using a foreign language in various situations in the process of professional interaction with other communication participants. In the learning process, it is possible to take some tasks that ensure the formation and improvement of professional communication in a foreign language: actualization of knowledge of lexical units and grammatical rules; formation of the ability to choose and use adequate language norms depending on the purpose and situation of communication; improving the ability to understand different types of communicative situations, as well as to build coherent and logical utterances; development of abilities to choose verbal and non–verbal means in case of communication failure; expanding knowledge about the socio–cultural features of the representatives of the countries of the language being studied, their traditions and norms of language behavior, as well as the formation of the ability to understand and adequately use them in the process of communication, while keeping student’s own culture. It is necessary to emphasize the special relevance of business communication in the orientation of preparation for personal and professional development of the student. At the same time, language information is the most reliable and perfect social means of communication and information acquisition, which serves as an exchange of thoughts and feelings and at the same time expresses the meaning of social relations. Therefore, the motivation of communicative orientation is one of the most important means of increasing the effectiveness of students’ foreign language learning. Key words: speech activity, dialogue, monologue, communicative approach, communicative task, initiating replica, replica–reaction.