The category of students is represented by the indigenous people of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) that influenced the choice of the organizational and didactic conditions of development of educational independence of students when learning a foreign language in a non-linguistic higher school.

The expansion of international relations has led to the increasing role of foreign language in professional activities of modern specialists. In the conditions of integration of Russia into the world community, the need for specialists in foreign language is increasing. The article deals with the features of teaching the second foreign language in Yakutia.