Abstract
The article explains detailed structure of monologue speech is, the speech of one person expressing his thoughts, intentions, assessment of events, etc. The development of monological speech of students is an urgent problem in modern society since coherent speech is a necessary condition for successful student education at a university. Having a developed monological speech, students can give detailed answers to the questions of the university program; it is reasoned and logical to state your own ideas; to reproduce the content of texts from textbooks, works of art. Criteria of monological speech: basic (coherence, integrity), additional (grammatical correctness of sentence construction, variety of lexical means). The speaker’s task is to present the material in a logically coherent form, highlighting the most essential parts and maintaining a clear logical transition from one part of the material being presented to another.