Tatyana Saytimova

This article discusses skills formation of nonlinguistic specialities of pedagogical universities in the learning a foreign language, which is especially important now with the introduction of the new federal teaching standards of higher education and the standard of the school teacher. Project activity has opportunities for learning communicative interaction and for the development of students' pedagogical skills, which will grow into the necessary professional competence of the teacher.

The significance of cross-cultural communication is revealed in the article, main approaches to teaching foreign languages are considered.