Linguistic competence development in language teaching

the article describes the development of “competence” concept in the history of linguistics and the methods of language teaching as well. It also analyzes the main concepts of scientists and presents the structures of linguistic competence of different authors. Based on the analysis the authors have studied the definition of linguistic competence and the main stages of linguistic skills development in language teaching. The researchers have analyzed the main information and communication technologies, which make the teaching process more effective