Relevance. The relevance of considering the features of professionally-oriented training of students of non-linguistic specialities is due to the need to improve the methods and techniques of work in the study of foreign languages, the emergence of developments in terms of the implementation of narrow-profile English or other foreign in a professional environment.Purpose. The purpose of this work was to identify the nature of teaching and learning foreign languages on the example of student-athletes in the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism, as well as the analysis of student questionnaires to determine the level of knowledge and practical skills in a foreign language. This work is aimed at the analysis of multi-level foreign language professionally-oriented competence: phonetic, lexical, word-formation, morphological, syntactic and communicative in the training of athletes.Methodology. The study uses the methods of analytical-synthetic, comparative analysis, the method of studying and summarizing pedagogical experience and the method of questioning.Results. Two surveys were conducted among students of 1-5 courses in the educational program �Physical Culture and Sports�: the first one determined the level of professionally oriented education, the second � the level of formation of language competencies. In this study, the main directions of the implementation of the Academy�s activities were considered: holding mass events aimed at learning a foreign language, training foreign specialists and exchanging experience with international companies, adopting teaching experience from foreign teachers.Conclusions. The attention is focused on some exercises developed for the training of athletes, including phonetic, lexical, morphological, word-formation, syntactic and communicative ones. In the future, this work can be used to develop new teaching methods, courses for teaching foreign languages and strategies for the formation of professionally oriented and communicative competence.