One of the requirements of the global linguistic globalization is functional literacy, which involves a degree of native and foreign languages. Today the objective historical principal is the nomination of more serious requirements to the knowledge level and skills of students. In the current realities, the educational process in higher education institutions should focus on building skills that contribute to the implementation of the concept of “education throughout life”. It is obvious that the main condition for the formation of such skills is the presence of a certain level of functional literacy.\nThe Republic of Kazakhstan has changed the paradigm of higher education from teaching in the format “teaching” to the format of “learning” after the signing in 1999 the Bologna Declaration by 29 countries to participate in the process of creating a common educational space. It is no longer a person “teaches” but “learns”.\nIn Kazakhstan the main directions of development of functional literacy are listed in the State Program for Education Development of Kazakhstan for 2011-2020 years.\nThus, functional literacy is a social and economic phenomenon related to the welfare of the population and the country as a whole.\nKeywords: functional literacy, methods of forming the functional literacy of students, development technology of critical thinking, models of formation and development of functional literacy.

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