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Abstract This article was written in order to determine the cause of the problem of the formation of a certain competence of students in the English lesson in accordance with the changes made to the education system of Kazakhstan. The question included in the article is aimed at the formation of the current socio-cultural competence of schoolchildren through foreign language lessons. And do all teachers fulfill this requirement, or do they accept sociocultural competence as a necessary and important skill? According to the results of the survey conducted during the writing of the article, it was determined and analyzed how teachers of different levels take responsibility for this competence.