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Abstract: The article deals with the current problem of teaching a second foreign language at a non-linguistic university (Ural State University of Economics) at the present stage: it describes the volume of training, its dynamics, features, issues and their possible solutions. The purpose of the study is to analyze the prospects for teaching second languages at a non-linguistic university and develop recommendations for providing second language teaching under current conditions. The research methods include content analysis of existing curricula for relevant education programs, corresponding academic course programs, students’ survey, statistical and interpretive analysis of closed and open questions, as well as scientific methods of synthesis, induction, generalization, and description. The conducted research has revealed certain problems, in particular, the preservation of linguistic diversity at the university (the availability of several second foreign languages in academic programs with an international component) when the discipline is optional. The study emphasizes the need to form the necessary competences in the students of various training courses, and, consequently, the relevance of the second foreign language courses in different curricula. In addition, the conducted students’ survey confirmed the risk of transferring the discipline from the curriculum to the category of supplementary paid courses (a drop in the number of students by 2/3). The article develops recommendations for the preservation of linguistic diversity and further teaching of second foreign languages, in particular, the presence of the discipline in the variable part of the basic curriculum, and the formation of effective mechanisms for the interaction between the university and the students.

About the author(s) :

Irina A. Stikhina 
Ural State University of Economics (Ekaterinburg, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1955-6549

Elena V. Erofeeva
Ural State Pedagogical University
Ural State University of Economics (Ekaterinburg, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8524-8851

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 08.05.2023; date of publication: 31.03.2024

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