The topic of the article is quite acute as there exists a need to search for new online educational technologies that will further increase the efficiency of foreign language educational process at modern universities in Russia. The purpose of the article is to present the methodological foundations of foreign language communicative preparation and analyze the quality of the influence of foreign language communicative online training on the development of dialogical speech skills of the students. The leading method of studying this issue is an experimental teaching method. The study was carried out among bachelor's degree students majoring in 44.03.01 «Pedagogical education» with a minor of «English as a foreign language» at Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and allowed to reveal the positive dynamics in the experimental groups. The article proves that foreign language communicative online training is a modern educational technology that aims at active development of students' dialogical speech skills and significantly differs from ordinary communicative training in the following features: the presence of certain stages correlated with the developed dialogical speech skills of students, ensuring active social preparation of students to further implementation of foreign language communication in the field of interpersonal and professional interaction; creation of conditions for expanding individual foreign language communicative experience. The materials presented in the article contribute to the integration of the procedural component of foreign language communicative online training in foreign language classes at the university.