This study presents a subjective approach in the process of teaching a foreign language at a university. A university student is considered as a subject of educational and professional activities in the process of learning a foreign language. In the process of learning a foreign language, a student develops linguistic subjectivity, which we consider as the ability to build the process of mastering and assimilation of a foreign language as a subject of linguistic activity, while showing an individualized level of activity, independence, responsibility. Monitoring the formation of educational skills among university students for the successful mastering of the curriculum in a foreign language made it possible to concretize and empirically substantiate the main tasks of the purposeful formation of educational activities. An essential condition for the effective organization of educational activities in the system of education at a university is the study of the initial level of formation of this activity among students.