A COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES AND TEACHING CZECH LANGUAGE IN MGIMO UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Over the last decade efforts to unify standards of foreign languages teaching have also been made in Russia. Oriented at teaching foreign languages for practical purposes, MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) is one of the first higher educational institutions that joined the Bologna process. Indeed, many steps have been made in that direction: programs of foreign languages teaching have been modified, special new programs dealing with specific linguistic aspects have been introduced (linguistic country studies, professional translation and interpretation courses etc.), new materials for studies have been published. An attempt to accede to the European standards of mastering a foreign language is sometimes explicitly declared. However, goals as well as conditions of language learning in our institute differ much from those laid down in “all-European competences”. Our presentation is devoted to possible ways and limitations of using European standards in teaching Czech (testing) and assessing student’s knowledge in training non-linguistic specialists in Bohemian studies.