Teaching foreign languages in Slovakia (1918 – 2018)

Abstract

The study is focused on the past and present of teaching foreign languages in the area of Slovakia from 1918 to 2018. It contains an overview of the way foreign language teaching in this area was organized for the period of hundred years. The study places the educational reforms concerning teaching foreign languages in a historical perspective which reflects the increasing importance attached to the teaching of foreign languages by national policy.

PhD graduates at Czech Universities: the Account of their Study, Postdoc Options and Job Ambitions

“…This language has become a primary means of scientific communication and its command becomes a prerequisite to doing research. Therefore, universities provide courses to remove the obstacle that a student has little or no command of English (Pokrivčáková, 2017;Králová, 2018). However, it takes a longer period of time for a student to acquire at least the reading knowledge of the language.…”