Keyword: «syntax»

The educational standards of higher education stipulate that graduates have universal competencies, which imply the ability to creatively solve production, research, socio-cultural, managerial and other tasks, which determined the relevance of the development and implementation in the educational process of methods and techniques that contribute to the formation of key competencies. The purpose of the article is to identify the most effective forms of work on the development of students' cognitive activity. The article de-scribes the methods and techniques tested in modern Russian language classes, which contribute to the improvement of the quality of training of specialists in philology: creative works, project activities, linguistic discussions and debates, practice-oriented tasks, etc.