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Introduction. In most cases, the integration of administrative and legal support from the state and creative solutions from teachers becomes a favorable background for the introduction of educational innovations. Foreign language education today faces both difficult challenges and promising prospects. Against the background of the boom in artificial intelligence, when numerous automated translation systems for both text and oral speech appear, chatbots and smart technologies are being introduced into the educational process, and non-creative actions are being replaced by robotic technologies, foreign language education should become a truly creative process. Methodology. The article combines the methodology of administrative and legal research of modern education (S. M. Rukavishnikov et al.) with a communicative and discursive approach in modern linguodidactics (O. A. Obdalova et al.). Discussion. The challenges to the formation of foreign language communicative competence, formed in the context of the realities of today’s socio-political and man-made, are substantiated. The legal mechanisms of development and current directions of state support for foreign language education, formulated in speeches of government officials and in official documents, are revealed. The necessity of extraordinary solutions in the field of linguodidactics is argued. Arguments are given in favor of the fact that in the new conditions, the way of specifying the provisions of the federal state standards of higher education, although it does not lose its relevance, demonstrates its insufficiency. The materials of the monograph “The Metaverse of Foreign language Education: Bringing the future closer” (Tomsk: Tomsk State University Press, 2025) are given as an example of innovative, creative solutions in the field of modern linguodidactics. The substantive aspects of the monograph are analyzed in detail, its scientific significance and methodological value are shown. The authors of the monograph interpret the metaverse of foreign language education as a living, creatively saturated cognitive-discursive space that encompasses physical, augmented and virtual reality. In the process of writing the book, the authors applied an inductive-deductive approach, moving from general theoretical positions to specific practical examples, and then returning to substantiating concepts based on data obtained during the introduction of experimental methods into the educational process. The monograph demonstrates the unconventionality of the author’s thinking, the scale of the research search and the masterful combination of theoretical constructions with practical solutions. Conclusion. An organic combination of educational innovations that meet the educational needs of the digital age and socio-cultural aspects of pedagogical science, filled with deep spiritual meaning, can produce positive effects of the practice of the pedagogical process. The best conditions for the realization of scientific and educational creativity are created on interdisciplinary platforms, where government support contributes to the development of intellectual potentials of scientists and teachers.