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Modern society requires new competences, among which are problem solving and critical thinking. Apart from specific knowledge and skills, new teaching concepts include the instruction in thinking skills in all curriculum areas. The goal of this research was establishing if and to what extent enabling students to master inductive strategies in learning German as a foreign language, which surpasses the specifics of the profession, would improve the students' language competency in the domains of reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar, as well as their intelligence. The results confirm that stimulating cognitive skills and inductive reasoning significantly improves the students' language competency, and that this is a result of the students' training in solving the same problem under different conditions and circumstances, in other words, a result of mastering the problem-solving method.