Intercultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching

Intercultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching — is an education program to make experts, whose areas of professional activity are education and science (implementation of basic and supplementary educational programs, conducting scientific researches) and in the sphere of inter-lingual and intercultural communication.

You will acquire practical skills of:

• General and professional communication in a foreign language;
• Preparation of presentations in a foreign language; translation of business correspondence;
• Interaction with representatives of different cultures;
• Preparation of teaching and testing materials;
• Conducting classes in a foreign language;
• The use of classical and modern educational technologies in the educational process (distance learning of foreign languages, the use of mobile applications in education, work with various Internet platforms and online learning systems).
• Conducting scientific linguistic and methodological research.

Education Benefits. You will be able to:

• Work as a consultant in administrative state and commercial structures on education and intercultural relations both in Russia and abroad, consultant on language and socio-cultural issues in education, international relations and trade, intercultural communication, tourism, etc.;
• Carry out pedagogical activity as a teacher in institutions of supplementary, pre-school, basic general, secondary vocational, and higher education;
• Participate in solving the strategic issues of the company/organization in the field of foreign economic and intercultural relations and business expansion by attracting foreign partners;
• Conduct research activities in the field of linguistics, intercultural communication, and foreign language teaching methodology.

Education Relevance

• Demand on the labor market.
• Employment opportunities in Russian and foreign companies. Guarantee of decent earnings.
• Opportunity to further study in Russian and foreign universities.
• Opportunity to combine education and professional activities.

Features of the educational process at VVSU:

• Linguistics Master's program developed at VVSU organically combines a moderate number of classroom lessons and a sufficiently large amount of practical education.
• The educational program provides in-depth acquaintance with the main modern trends in linguistics and trends in language development.
• Choice of the foreign language to be studied (English/Russian for foreign students)
• Wide use of e-learning technologies (face-to-face classes + students' independent work with e-learning courses and other educational resources placed in the electronic educational environment of VVSU), distance and hybrid format of classes, which makes it possible to simultaneously educate students who are both in Russia and abroad.
• High-quality modern material and technical base
• Multicultural linguistic environment, communication with students of other countries
• Opportunity to study abroad on student exchange programs
• Practicing teachers: practicing interpreters and pedagogues who participate and win professional competitions and are proficient in modern educational technologies

*In the case of foreign students entering the program, the main requirement for admission is Russian language proficiency at the second certification level (TORFL-1).