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The article considers the problems various methods of teaching foreign languages in universities. Particular attention was paid to the following methods: direct method, grammar-translation, audiovisual, audiolingual and communicative. According to the author modern teaching methods involve the use of such a system of methods, which is aimed not at the presentation of ready-made knowledge by the teacher and their reproduction, but at the independent mastery of knowledge by the trainees in the process of active cognitive activity