Features of the formation of system grammatical representations in the teaching english language

The article discusses some methods of teaching foreign languages in universities. Special attention is paid to grammar-translation, audio-visual, audio-lingual and communicative methods of teaching students at the university. The grammar-translation method is one of the main methods in the modern system of continuing education. This is the so-called classical method, which has been used in teaching foreign languages for more than a decade. This prevalence is also due to the fact that most of the teachers themselves were trained using this method. The purpose of this method is to learn how to read and translate using grammatical rules. The disadvantages of this method include the fact that the lexical part is not given enough attention. The study of vocabulary is reduced to the mechanical memorization of words. Reading and translation are performed in a strict form. In addition, the texts offered for reading are usually related to complex fiction, therefore, the student studies only the literary language