Requirements

Linguistic competence which refers to knowledge of language areas (phonetics, vocabulary, grammar) and language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to the level sufficient for communication with the target culture representatives.
Sociolinguistic competence allowing choosing appropriate linguistic forms, ways of expression depending on the setting, communicative aim and intentions of the speaker.
Discourse competence (discourse – is a written or oral text) referring to the skill of recognizing linguistic (lexical, grammatical), stylistic and structural characteristics of written and oral texts in order to interpret and produce text appropriately, as well as based on this, choosing appropriate tactics of behavior for language use.