The aim of the article is to justify the need to consider the problem of students’ speech-and-thinking skills development in the process of foreign language learning. Taking into account the peculiarities of cognitive processes provides awareness of information perception and reliable memorization of educational material. This provides using cognitive and informational methods of exploration scientific material. The authors come to the conclusion that to form skills of information understanding students must be able to recognize a problem, memorize essential speech phenomena, and realize their phonetic, acoustic, morphological and syntactic content. So to solve this problem we should offer students some tasks, which include the stage of conversion the text into the structures of inner speech. © 2018 International Strategic Management Association. All Rights Reserved.