Abstract
The article is devoted to the implementation of the competence-activity approach in teaching the discipline "Russian language" to students of all specialties of the Almaty Technological University. The article reveals the concept of "competence-activity approach", which is taken as the basis of the training strategy, as well as the specifics of key competencies. The author presents a typology of educational tasks, built taking into account the type of speech activity and the aspect of language, aimed at working out linguistic facts at all levels of the language system. The author comes to the conclusion that the development of the didactic material and the lessons given competence-activity approach ensures students ' readiness to expand knowledge in the field of professional disciplines through the implementation of research activities on professional issues with the use of Russian language sources in both print and electronic versions.