Аннотация: The article touches upon the problems of teaching English as a foreign language and development of future teachers’ communicative competence implementing the criteria of Educational Standards of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan wants to be amongst the world’s top 30 developed nations by 2050. To achieve this goal our country needs well-educated multilingual specialists in different areas of our economy. The author highlights the ways of carrying out education reforms in the educational institutions providing the country with multilingual teachers. The article analyzes lingo- cultural competences that future teachers should acquire to become one of the competitive specialists preparing young people for the challenges of the 21st century.