Vera Rozhina

The article analyzes what teachers are mistaken in when formulating educational goals (with examples), stud-ies the criteria and rules for lesson targeting in accordance with the requirements of the federal state educa-tional standard of primary education, and proposes the basic techniques of teaching students how to set goals.

The author proposes the prospects of improving foreign language teaching by means of considering individual cognitive styles and enriching ways of cognitive activity of students using electronic technologies.