PROBLEMS OF CREATING A NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Abstract

The article addresses a problem of creating a national system for assessing foreign language proficiency. Relevance of the study is determined by the need to develop such a system in connection with Russia’s withdrawal from the Bologna process and the intensification of educational contacts with Asian and African countries. The objective of the study is to work out recommendations for creating the national system of foreign language assessment. Relying on the competence approach and using the method of comparative analysis, the authors identify similarities and differences between the existing systems of foreign language assessment, presented a summary table of foreign language proficiency levels in Europe, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan. The following competences relevant for Russia are identified and substantiated: linguocultural, translation, business communication competences. It is concluded that the transfer of international training and assessment systems without taking into account national and cultural peculiarities, national training goals and employers’ requirements is not reasonable. The national assessment system should reflect linguocultural and sociolinguistic features of the speakers of the national language and culture, so that the speakers should be able to represent their country in intercultural foreign language communication on the basis of awareness of the features of their native language and culture.