This article discusses the methodology for developing foreign language professional competence of under-graduates in the educational program “Training of teachers in a foreign language.” At the present stage, with the entry of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the global educational space, there is a need for highly trained personnel and specialists of the 21st century. The formation of foreign language professional competence contributes to the development of intercultural communicative competence among undergraduates, adapting them to different cultural contexts. The implementation of the competency-based approach, as one of the relevant approaches in education of the 21st century, and the cognitive approach, as the leading one in foreign language education, lead to high-quality final results and the formation of foreign language professional competence of future foreign language teachers. This article describes the results of applying the course “Modern methodology of foreign language education in higher institutions”. The aim of the course is to provide the necessary qualitative training of future foreign language teachers so that they can successfully realize in their pedagogical practice the main goal of foreign language teaching - the development of intercultural communicative competence of individuals. This is based on the principles and methods of foreign language education, which contribute to the formation of graduate students' ability to effectively communicate and interact with representatives of other cultures.