Educational institution Francisk Skorina Gomel State University has opened a training course for the specialists on the course 1-21 05 02-04 Russian philology “Russian as a foreign language”.

Our University has been training specialists on the specialities “Russian philology (literary-editorial activity)” and “Russian philology (computer software)”. However, development of international business contacts and broadening of professional cooperation between the countries where Russian is widely used, the requirements for the specialists – teachers of Russian as a foreign language – have increased.

After signing a contract on cooperation between educational institution Francisk Skorina Gomel State University and Shanghai Industry & Commerce Foreign Language College, the main aspect of which supposes included studies of Russian for the Chinese students at GSU, applicability and promptness of the speciality “Russian philology (Russian as a foreign language)”, as well as its meaning within the context of interstate cooperation tend to increase.

Nowadays more than 800 Russian language classes act at the capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabat. The speciality “Russian philology (on directions)” is popular among the students of the Republic of Turkmenistan in the conditions of the lack of Russian language teachers in the country.

Training of the specialists at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University on the speciality “Russian philology (Russian as a foreign language)” will broaden the opportunities on export of educational services. The foreign specialists will be able to work with pupils of secondary schools, secondary special and higher educational institutions of their country, provide individual studies for the foreign citizens at the educational institutions and the distant ones, using internet-technologies, as well as work abroad as teachers of Russian as a foreign language.