Abstract
This article explores effective strategies aimed at developing students' speaking skills in the process of learning English at higher educational institutions. It analyzes modern methodological approaches, including the communicative method, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), the lexical approach, and project-based learning. Each of these approaches contributes to the formation of learners’ communicative competence and helps overcome common difficulties encountered in speaking, such as language barriers, fear of making mistakes, limited vocabulary, and more. The study summarizes the results of recent research and practical experience in the application of these methods. It is shown that combining CLIL, lexically rich materials, and project-based activities significantly enhances students’ fluency, confidence, and motivation in speaking a foreign language. The results section presents concrete examples and case studies that demonstrate improvements in students’ speaking performance under the influence of the described pedagogical methods. In conclusion, the article argues for the appropriateness of a comprehensive use of various teaching methods to develop speaking skills and provides recommendations for university instructors to improve the educational process based on modern, research-based methodologies.