Abstract: The object of research in this article is teaching foreign languages. The matter under study is forming grammar skills within classical and communicative teaching grammar. The author proves the importance of the problem of teaching grammar in terms of a client oriented approach practised nowadays. The article presents a review of the main ideas of working on grammar within different approaches to teaching languages. Particular attention is concentrated on peculiarities and difficulties of communicative teaching as the most practised nowadays.The research method in the article is the comparative linguodidactic analysis of different approaches to teaching foreign grammar.The main author’s conclusions are the following statements. Nowadays the market of educational services dictates a need to reconsider teaching grammar for a communicative approach, but it should not result in giving up working on grammar. However communicative teaching has a number of peculiarities and difficulties. Classical teaching grammar that is often presented as obsolete and ineffective is nevertheless timeproof. More than one generation managed to learn a foreign language that way including those who propagandize communicative teaching nowadays. Therefore classical teaching should not be rejected but fitted to modern communicative ideals which is not an easy task.The novelty of this article consists in viewing approaches to teaching grammar through the prism of educational services that dictate not only good result but client’s satisfaction in the process as well.

Abstract: The object of research is learning and teaching English. The matter of research is psychological aspects of this process. The author analyses such factors in learning English as motivation for learning, aptitudes for studying a language, communicative barrier and ways to overcome it as well as correlation between speech and language as its means. Particular attention is paid to interrelation of didactic and psychological issues in this process. The method of research in this article is analyzing empiric data obtained during author’s own learning English and her teaching it to students. The main conclusions come down to the following. Didactic treatment of learning English is not enough. Success in this process is determined by many factors, among them psychological ones are the most important. The novelty of the article is in its viewing psychological aspects in interrelation with didactic and linguistic ones, which provides multifaceted analysis of the issue of learning English and increasing its efficiency.