The article examines the place and significance of the grammatical aspect in teaching French to linguistic students from the point of view of traditional, communicative and functional approaches. Complexity is emphasized and the versatility of grammatical skills, among which are receptive (active and passive), as well as linguistic and speech grammatical skills, stipulating the need for an integrated approach in the formation of grammatical competence of future translators, which takes place in three stages.

grammatical competence, communicative method, functional approach, linguistic students.

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