Russian state system of testing for the foreign citizens in Russian as a foreign language is a federal program which was created in 1998. This system takes part as an associate member of ALTE (European Association for Language Testing) and represented in the International Association for the Assessment of Education (IAFA) and other foreign organizations. The test standard for Russian as a foreign language meets international requirements. The testing system for Russian as a foreign language allows you to determine and certify the level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language, regardless of place, time and form of training. Kuban State University is a regional representative of the Russian state testing system in the South of Russia since 2000.
Highly qualified specialists organize testing of foreign citizens in order to identify the level of general knowledge of the Russian language, including the language of the specialty (engineering and economic profile).
The test comprises 5 parts examining language competences: Writing, Lexis/ Grammar, Reading, Listening, and Speaking.
«Lexis/ Grammar» part is aimed to assess the lexical minimum. The vocabulary for this level contains the lexis for everyday use and social and cultural spheres.
«Reading» part is aimed at assessing the understanding of a text with difficult grammatical structures and expressive means of language, the ability to use text messages.
«Writing» part is aimed at assessing the skills and abilities to express various communicative intentions in the writing form using the communicative means.
«Listening» part is aimed at assessing the ability to comprehend information contained in a monologue and dialogue speech: the subject, the main idea and additional information of each notional part of a message.
«Speaking» part is aimed at assessing a candidate’s ability to express their thoughts in Russian in accordance with a given communicative task, to compare and summarize facts, to provide logical reasoning, ability to process and transfer the information retrieved from a text, to produce the monologue according the proposed subject.
