European integration of our country demonstrates the urgent need to improve future philologists’ professional training, its main competence is communicative one. A communicative competence for such students is a component of modern structure of philological education, which should train specialists with a wide literary, verbal, intellectual, and cultural potential that makes this research relevant. The purpose of the article is to identify the ways of improving future philologists’ communicative competence during the experimental research. The tasks of the article are to conduct a preliminary pilot research; to determine the groups, stages, experimental methods; to identify the ways of forming communicative competence and to implement their practical application; to determine the results and experiment dynamics. To achieve the purpose, to solve the set tasks, the general scientific methods were used. The theoretical ones such as analysis, synthesis and systematization; logical-systemic, problem-targeted, comparative analyses, synthesis of author’s teaching experience. The empirical ones such as questioning, testing, simple and comprehensive observation, individual and group conversations, the study of practical students’ activities; pedagogical experiment; methods of statistical result processing. The results of the study suggest that the experimental work with systematic use of different ways of forming students’ communicative skills that are the basis of communicative competence, in general, communicativeness as a personal feature, communicative methods, communicative focuses, in particular, during philologists’ training led to the effective improving communicative competence. The students also gained the ability to use communicative skills, to achieve communicative understanding in situations of direct and mediated communication, to use Ukrainian and English for professional purposes, the ability to react spontaneously in cases of changing partner’s speech behavior as well, it also testifies students’ improvement of communicative competence.