Improving linguistic training in the military education system

The ever-increasing need of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for specialists fluent in foreign languages is due to the expansion of military cooperation between the Russian Federation and its partner countries. In the actual conditions of interaction between the armed forces in the framework of peacekeeping operations, the timely and correct decision by the commanders to use the forces and means plays a primary role. Often, commanders have to deal with information in a foreign language. Currently, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation trains military specialists in the main foreign languages – English, Chinese, French and German. The language skills of military personnel should be sufficient to enable them to perform at least basic professional communication tasks without the assistance of military language specialists. However, as has already been observed by many specialists, the development of foreign language professional communication skills often involves a certain set of difficulties. This state of affairs justifies the need to develop new and improve upon the existing programmes for training, retraining and improving the language skills of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The aims, objectives and principles of improving the language training for the Russian military personnel, i. e. in the framework of military training centers are considered; the directions for the improvement of the military language training are formulated; the need to improve the linguistic training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation personnel is justified.