The article discusses the scientific and methodological platform for the formation of professional
metacommunicative competence of foreign language teachers in a specialized school. The content of the
article reveals the basic approaches and principles of the formation of professional metacommunicative
competence, which refers to the ability of students to use a foreign language for educational purposes as a
tool for the development of foreign language education in a professional metalanguage aspect. The features
of the component composition in determining the level of formation of professional metacommunicative
competence of students are revealed. The tactical goal of training a foreign language teacher for specialized
classes are described, which provides for improving the quality of training for students with the goal of
mastering such technologies that give the prospect to a future teacher the ability to speak a meta- branch
language in various working conditions.