The study specifies the advantages of a competence approach in foreign language education as a specially tailored educational process resulting in the individuals able to effectively realise their intellectual and creative potential in professional activity, motivated and ready to self-realization and self-development. Communicative approach enables teachers to use authentic materials and digital tools combined with motivating tasks to develop students’ abilities to effectively function as competent critical and well-informed digital citizens. It also provides a good and efficient tool for teachers who want to cultivate their students’ literacy skills and foreign language competence in a very interactive and student-centered way. Authors argue that foreign language communicative competence development for University Professors and students becomes a condition of education internationalization and integration into the educational common European space.