Currently, with the development of a communicative approach to learning a foreign language, the organization of the learning process is aimed at ensuring the possibility of productive communication, when there are different conditions of communication, different value orientations, different models of behavior, etc.Hence, the most important goal of teaching a foreign language is the formation of lexical competence, which, in fact, is realized in the ability to organize speech communication.In this regard, lexical competence itself can be understood as the ability to carry out foreign-language communication with competent structuring of the text.At the same time, lexical competence is considered the ability to solve communication problems in various spheres of life by means of a foreign language, as well as the ability to use the facts of another language and culture to achieve one's own goal of communication in conditions of direct contact with native speakers in accordance with the norms and traditions of its culture.Key words: cognitive activity, folklore, lexical competence, teaching a foreign language, language educationIt is important to rely on such knowledge, skills and abilities specific to a foreign language as: mastery of language tools, the ability to generate and recognize foreign-language information; the presence of grammatical knowledge and skills; the ability to achieve mutual understanding in a foreign-language environment based on lexical knowledge.That is why, as researcher S.G.Ter-Minasova believes, teaching English, in particular lexicology, necessarily involves the formation of lexical competence with the study of phonetics, grammar, word formation, phraseology, including the stylistic focus in language learning, and therefore the study of lexicology on a textual basis, for which the formation of this competence is based on such types of educational activities as cognitive lexical activity, reflexive lexical