One of the most pressing problems in the methodology of teaching a foreign language is the search for effective teaching tools. Changing reality, the development of technology, access to new sources of information are changing the educational process, filling it with new elements that can be used to devel-op students‟ individual abilities, unlock their potential, increase the level of language training and de-velop skills.

The use of ICT is one of the effective means of teaching. Computer programs help train various forms of speech activity and combine them in different modules. The use of ICT tools also contributes to the formation of lexical abilities, to understand linguistic phenomena, automate language and speech actions, create communicative tasks, and also ensure the implementation of a personal approach and the introduction of independent work of students.

The purpose of the study is to substantiate and test the effectiveness of using ICT in the development of lexical skills in practice. Despite this, there are a number of problems: not all universities have the necessary technical equipment; in many universities the number of computers does not correspond to the number of students; inadequate level of ICT and teacher competence; their lack of professionalism and sometimes reluctance to use modern ICT technologies. The solution to these problems explains the relevance of the problem under consideration.