The formation of linguistic competence of university students

Foreign language (FL) is taught at the universities as a compulsory subject of a
curriculum and students with different levels of language competence and degree of
motivation have to learn it on equal basis. The hours of classes are usually limited and
teachers have to think how to organize a short course properly to achieve the global goal.
The latter is defined as developing FL communicative competence in the spheres relevant
to the learners’ future jobs. Therefore, the generally accepted approach to FLT at the
universities described can be defined as a professionally oriented one with the focus on a
specific language field (sublanguage)