Abstract:
The formation of intercultural communicative competence is the main goal of learning a foreign language at
different stages of study. In the scientific literature, educational and cognitive component reflects how the
student is able to learn a foreign language and culture of the target language. The article discusses psychological
and pedagogical conditions of formation of educational-cognitive competence on the basis of information
and communication technologies. The means of formation of educational-cognitive competences are described
in the article, which are independent cognitive work of the student. In high school, an independent
educational-cognitive activity is a required component of educational, educational-research and scientificresearch
activities of students. To such psychological-pedagogical conditions, the authors include the following:
1) the motivation of the students to use in the process of learning foreign language information and
communication technologies; 2) competence formation of students; 3) the system learning of foreign language
based on information and communication technologies.