The article is devoted to the issues of the philological competence and the importance of developing it in the process of training Bachelors of Education (Major in Foreign Languages) at high school. First of all, it studies various points of view on the terms “philology” and “philological competence”. In addition, it presents the approaches to the main characteristics of the philological competence and singles out the required skills and abilities of future foreign language teachers. As a result, it suggests the way to develop the philological competence using the interdisciplinary approach.