Currently, many universities use the communicative approach to foreign language teaching. In contrast, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) uses a mixed approach for these purposes, which combines both the abovementioned communicative method and the grammar-translation method, which is more traditional for Russian universities. Additionally, RUDN University provides an opportunity for students to continue learning the target language at foreign partner universities, where students can practice the language in its natural environment. In this regard, the serious research interest for us is which of our students' language competencies will transform after graduation from these universities and how their motivation changes towards learning Spanish.The vast majority of previous research on the role of foreign language internships in increasing students' motivation to learn the target language focuses on issues related to motivation to learn the language within the framework of the communicative or grammar-translation method (Helmchen, Melo-Pfeifer, 2018;Germer, 2018;Marijuan and Sanz, 2018). This study approaches the question from a different angle and concentrates on the problem of motivating students who previously studied Spanish at a university that employs the mixed method for learning the foreign language and who later completed an internship at a partner university that in turn utilizes the communicative method.To answer this research question, we aimed to conduct a study of the formed cultural and linguistic competencies of 3rd-and 4th-year students who were and who were not on foreign internships at Spanish partner universities of RUDN University. Based on the obtained data, this research demonstrates the need to change the established approaches not only to the practice of teaching Spanish but also to the conscious use of internships as a tool to increase the motivation of students to learn the target language.

This paper aims to evaluate the emotional component of the transformable clothing by using semantic differential. The process of evaluating consumer’s emotional experience consists of steps that provide an ability to classify the Kansei attributes of transformable clothes. The results of evaluation are to be used as a data set to fill the database of knowledge of the previously developed expert system to support clothing design process. In order to achieve the purpose of the research several subtasks were solved. Firstly, the collection of the transformable clothing was designed, and the method to analyse images was selected. The data set of images of transformable clothing was formed and prepared to be included into the database of the expert system, which is designed to select the clothing with certain emotional impression.

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