Sentence examples for foreign language competences from inspiring English sources

The present article aims at describing specific types of foreign language competences tailored for engineering students enrolled in the Romanian-language-taught bachelor programmes of the Romanian technical higher education.

Acknowledging the importance of developing the engineering students' foreign language competence and communication skills for succeeding in their career in the 21st century knowledge society, this paper shows that teaching and learning presentation skills in the English language courses and seminars in a technical university in Romania will help the students to reach their career goals.

These are, communication in the mother tongue; communication in foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; social and civic competences; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and cultural awareness and expression.

A video about Mr Doner has the title "Teen speaks over 20 languages", but Mr Doner laughingly says only that he is "very comfortable" in four or five.Anyone who has gone far in even a single foreign language knows that competence is graded: there is no magical day when someone pins a gold star on your lapel and says: "Congratulations".

The article presents the results of a pilot survey designed to evaluate the level of professional competence of foreign language teachers, employed in the institutions of higher education at Tomsk.

That is doubly difficult because a crucial section of the exam tests competence in a foreign language, almost always English.

Then competence in a foreign language could be made a necessary qualification for higher education – all higher education, with no ifs or buts.

This requires from the engineers professional communicative competence in a foreign language of various content.

The authors suggest to distinguish between six different groups of professional abilities that present various aspects of the professional competence of a foreign language teacher.

Differences in needs of engineers depending on types of organizations can first of all be seen in the various levels of engineer's communicative competence in a foreign language required for the purpose of speech activity in a foreign language in organizations of different types.

The article presents methodological materials for teaching professional foreign language (Russian), which stimulate foreign students' communicative competence in the sphere of educational and professional communication.