Use of contrastive principle in developing foreign language communicative behavior of students-philologists

This article is devoted to the foreign communicative behaviour. Conscious and systematic interaction of the studied languages and cross-cultural features of communicative behaviour is realized through the contrastive principle. Thе article describes the stages of developing foreign communicative behaviour: exercises with speech formulas and units of the communicative behaviour within the communication context, the drilling of the foreign communicative behaviour itself. It also gives examples of the tasks relying on the contrastive principle.