Changes in the modern society put forward the task of humanizing the teaching and educational process, and, (L accordingly, the formation o f the humanitarian culture o f the individual. The authors o f the article in the content o f the student's human culture include a set o f universal human ideas, value orientations, creative ways o f professional activity, formed humanitarian qualities; competence approach is considered to be a methodological basis for the formation of the humanitarian culture of students in the process of teaching a foreign language.