In the system of foreign language education in Kazakhstan,English is a priority at all levels of education. English is the language which is chosen by parents as a foreign for their children in preschool age. This article is devoted to the study of the status and current issues of teaching English in Kazakhstan. It is based on the results of a practical survey of eighth grade students of some secondary schools, as well as on observation of the educational process. During a visit to English classes and after conversations with school teachers, the problematic aspects of the learning process were identified. The article provides an overview of modern methods and principles of classes’ organization, contains recommendations for solving theidentified problems. The authors of the article also tried to find out the desire of students to learn not only English, but also other foreign languages, because according to the state regulatory documents, students at school have the right to choose a foreign language, which they want tolearn. The desire to communicate in a foreign language, readiness for foreign language communication, the role ofEnglish language in the student’s life, the main activities in foreign language lessons were some of the key issues, that were considered in this scientific work.

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The article highlights innovative teaching methods that contribute to the formation of a secondary language personality. These methods in foreign language lessons combine individual, group, oral, and written forms of work and are designed for the use of all four main types of speech activities. The authors provide practical examples of innovative methods’ application with a description of their structural components. The article defines the requirements for teachers’ preparation for lessons using innovative teaching methods. Particular attention is paid to work on students’ feedback: the impact of each innovative method on students is checked by conversation, survey. The authors consider it expedient while organizing project activities to form a secondary language personality, to adhere to the following directions in pedagogical activity: historical, cultural, linguistic. Language portfolio creation and its managing are effective means that contribute to the formation of a secondary language personality and allow to monitor the increase of knowledge level about the history and culture of the target language country. The authors set the goal to test the effectiveness of innovative teaching methods’ use in the formation of a secondary linguistic personality in foreign language classes. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature on the research problem, pedagogical experiment, survey, generalization, etc. The study describes the experience of using innovative teaching methods in the practice of foreign language teaching. The effectiveness of innovative teaching methods’ use in the formation of a secondary language personality is confirmed by the research results given in the article.