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The article’s focus is to evaluate language education in terms of formation of multilingualism as one of the factors of successful internationalization. The questions of language education are discussed in the article as well as the modern language policy of the Republic Sakha (Russia) has been considered and the activities implemented at the University level are evaluated. The research was conducted on the base of state policy documents analysis, reports on modern position of Russia in the international market of...

The modern society is characterized by multilingualism. The English language as a language of international communication cannot be considered as the only linguistic tool of interpersonal and professional relations. More and more people realize the importance of the knowledge of two or more foreign languages. That explains the students’ interest to learning a second foreign language. The paper presents the experience of the Department of Foreign Languages, Institute of Law, RUDN University in teaching German as a ...

The role of language is difficult to overestimate as it is the main tool of communication, both written and oral. Language ensures historical diversity. It is an important part of identity and can be observed as “a social event” (Mikhail Bakhtin). National cultures are best embodied through languages. Losing a language therefore means a loss of historical and social richness, as well as traditional values. Preservation of language provides tradition and continuity. Attitudes to language have changed over the centu...

The article is devoted to the problem of prosodic interference in the situation of artificial (classroom) multilingualism which is characterized by interaction of three languages with different prosodic systems. The article reveals how intonational transfer of English special question manifests itself in the speech of students, the bilinguals of the Yakut and Russian languages, who learn English as a foreign language. The results of comparative analysis of English special question, produced by the Yakut-Russian bi...

The article considers language variety or multilingualism of the modern globalized world space in the terms of local and global components of the inter cultural communication as vectors aiming to opposite directions from the point of view of different and often clashing scientific and historical approaches. The use of historical and comparative analysis allows the author to understand that most scholars claim that such turbulence occurs because the peoples as the carriers of different national cultures and languag...