The present study is an attempt to define the term competence from different perspectives. It is undoubtedly attributed three components: knowledge, skills and attitudes; the attitudes are attributed the leading role of directing, bringing arguments and achieving a result; knowledge and abilities complete the competence.The need to develop students’ communicative competence increases with the ideas found in pedagogical researches, which state that the human personality can be professionally formed only in the process of communication. The communication competence includes people’s abilities of communication acquired during their lives and supposes abilities to communicate, transmit, exchange opinions in different circumstances in the process of interaction with other people, applying the system of language and speech standards. The competence to communicate in a language specific to the speciality involves the competence of professional communication and includes, in addition to the components of communication, knowledge competence in the field.