In this article the existing approaches to the formation of complex communicative skills are analyzed in terms of selection and structuring of knowledge that has to be appropriated by a student and in terms of technologies of the knowledge acquisition within the socio-psychological training. An innovative approach to the formation of complex communicative skills (the activity group training) is described in this article. The approach is based on the P.Ya. Galperin’s method of systematic and gradual formation of mental actions. The new method combines the advantages of an activity approach and group training as an active learning method.