The article provides a comparative analysis of the practice of language education in modern Russian and European universities in the course of studying the fundamental documents on the problem, as well as consideration of the current state, content, goals, methods and monitoring the quality of language training of students. Research methods: analysis of scientific literature on the problem; study and generalization of the accumulated pedagogical experience, etc.
language education, students, undergraduate, foreign language
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