TRAINING UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT PROFICIENCY LEVEL C1-C2

The international academic environment requires good knowledge of the English language to communicate and proficient level knowledge to deliver lessons for international students and writing papers for high-ranking journals.  This paper discusses the case of South Ural State University. The teaching and research staff of the university attended Lingva courses which is a training program for different levels aimed at developing general and specific knowledge of English. Learners usually follow the trajectory from A1 to C1 levels, while additional courses of “English Medium Instruction”, “Academic English for Writing Purposes”, “Conferences”, and “Presentations” are also available. Even having achieved C1, the teaching and research staff still lack confidence. Therefore, it was suggested to start a Proficiency (C2) level course to check the possibility of achieving this level. The results suggest that the successful achievement of C2 might be possible if the trajectory is chosen correctly and the results of the previous courses are sufficient.