The author of the book summarized and systematized the main thing in the valuable that was obtained by Soviet psychology of teaching foreign languages ​ ​ over the past 50 years of its successful development. The book was written to assist teachers and methodologists in teaching foreign languages ​ ​ in their creative searches and daily work. It is also designed for senior students of pedagogical institutes and faculties of foreign languages ​ ​ of universities, for students of higher pedagogical courses, as well as graduate students in psychology and methods of teaching foreign languages.