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The relevance of the survey in the article is stipulated with the fact that research skills formed by reading scientific literature conduce to the enhancement of cognitive activity, independence and research personality of students, aimed at studying and cognition of new knowledge in the research process. The analysis of scientific literature and the collection of the necessary material is an essential part of any research; therefore, determining the ways of developing research skills through reading academic texts is an urgent problem. Nowadays the competitiveness of an advanced pro is defined not just by his tall capabilities within the proficient field, but also by the acquisition of research skills that are necessary for a graduate of the digital century. Searching for new strategies contributes to ensuring the quality of professional training of future foreign language teachers. Mastering research skills is a factor in refining the quality of professional training of future foreign language teachers and it is an essential condition for the current stage of development of higher pedagogical education. At the initial stage, any investigation commences with the scrutiny of the literature that contains a numerous quantity of academic texts on the topic of the research. However, students feel difficulties during working with specific and academic information. For instance: misconception of the general meaning of the scientific text, storage of vocabulary, incapability to analyze and summarize information, etc. In order to overcome these problems, we should teach students how to work with academic literature using a set of exercises for developing research skills. Research skills are considered as the acquisition of new knowledge, the selection of new material, analysis, generalization, and acquiring of any information on the research topic. The purpose of the survey in this article is to develop students’ research skills using a set of exercises based on reading academic texts. Keywords: research skills, components of research skills, informational component, the cognitive component, theoretical-cognitive component, academic texts, intensive reading, scanning reading, skimming reading, extensive reading, a set of exercises.