Second Russian-Spanish weeks of languages and culture: scientific and methodological aspects

The internationalization of education is one of the main trends in the development of higher education in the 21st century. One of the aspects of internationalization is the growing interest in the languages and culture of foreign countries. At the same time, foreign language and intercultural competences of university graduates are becoming more and more in demand in the labor market. This confirms the relevance of holding Russian-Spanish weeks of languages and culture, which are becoming regular cultural and educational events, dominant in cooperation between Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and the University of Cadiz. Language and Culture Weeks are a unique fusion of educational, cultural and scientific components. The main content of the weeks is short-term programs for studying Russian and Spanish as foreign languages. Teachers split students into 3-4 levels, corresponding to their initial language training. Teachers carry out trial testing students basing on the uniform state requirements in Russian language. In accordance with the principles of comprehensive internationalization, not only students, but also teachers take an active part in the activities of the language weeks. In presentations and discussions, teachers touch upon such important topics for teaching Russian and Spanish as linguistic-oriented methods of language training, lexical, grammatical, semantic aspects of RussianSpanish and Spanish-Russian translation, and the peculiarities of translation of texts of different genres. The participants pay particular attention to the history and current state of the literary process in Spain and Russia. The teachers presented some textbooks on various aspects of language training, reflecting modern approaches to teaching languages. The exchange of scientific and methodological ideas, acquaintance with the best practices will improve the quality of the language training of students of both universities.