The article presents the contextual learning in foreign language educational process.Reveals its’ importance for future foreign language teachers preparation. The author considers peculiarities of professional activity contexts and its role in narrative competence formation. Narratives created by students are the most common forms of verbal communication, realized at different levels of communicative activity, depending on the situation and context.Narrative competence formation in the process of contextual learning is possible through problem-based tasks that arespeciallyorganized by the teacher and provide active interaction of students, their joint activity in finding solutions to the presented problem content. The articleprovides examples of problem situations that reveal the methodological aspect. Prospects for further research of contextual learning and its importance in the process of future foreign language teachers’ narrative competence formationaresuggested.