Critical thinking is considered as the ability to evaluate, analyze, and think logically based on personal experience. This requires the teacher to create a system of assignments that guide him to understand and analyze information and make the right decisions. It is assumed that as a result, a personality is formed who has a personal thought, is able to prove it, distinguish between facts and assumptions, and prove it. This article examines effective teaching methods for philology students, which explain that critical learning is an important process that simultaneously develops language skills and critical thinking. The critical teaching method allows students to better understand the linguistic, cultural and semantic features of phraseological units, analyze, compare and critically evaluate the quality of their use. Approaches to the critical study of phraseological units are also considered. Samples of various tasks necessary for practical exercises were presented, and instructions for teaching students phraseology were demonstrated.
phraseology, critical thinking, experience, technology, competence.