Keyword: «international students»

The article focuses on the analysis of the educational systems of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ghana. The authors consider the problems students from Ghana can face when getting an academic degree in the universities of Russia. Factors that determine the academic success of foreign students studying at higher educational establishments in Russia are described.

The article focuses on the topical ways of attaining a higher level of tolerance of schoolchildren towards other cultures during school practice of international students in the school specializing in English. The school environment in such types of schools is seen as a competitive advantage for creating a multicultural context in which pedagogical school practice is organized within the framework of school-university cooperation.

The article focuses on the problem of teaching international students majoring in engineering and science communication in the English language in the professional sphere. The authors show that in a foreign language classroom the skills of using professional terminology in English and in Russian and learning the language of science are not less important than developing language and communicative skills; so they are to be given equal attention to. Study-guides are to be developed with the view to the necessity of interacting in three languages.

The article focuses on mentoring as an effective tool of organizing and mediating the work of foreign students in the university. The author describes peculiarities of adaptation of foreign students specifying the role of mentor-mediator at each stage of the educational and adaptational processes. Real life and aca-demic cases are provided to illustrate the author’s ideas.