The article analyzes approaches and principles of developing foreign language communicative competence of bachelor stu-dents by way of activating their self-dependence. Personality-centered, competence-based, communicative, systemic, subject and activity approaches are treated as key ones. The given approaches help to implement the methodical model providing for commu-nicative and action behaviour based on a number of principles. The principles are as follows: integrative development of foreign language communicative competence and learners` autonomy, modelling functional linguo-professional activity, productive coop-eration and others. It concludes with the way the integration of the above principles influences the process of learners` foreign language communicative competence development.