LINGUISTICS IN MODERN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
The article considers the concepts of educational environment and educational space and argues that creating educational environment in the modern world suggests establishing proper conditions for multilingualism, which is regarded as an essential prerequisite for training a modern specialist in any professional field and an important means of internationalization in higher education. It is claimed that introducing a course of lectures in basic Linguistics might be beneficial for students of non-linguistics universities and faculties as it would better prepare them for their professional life and considerably increase their employment opportunities. In this connection, the article refers to the experience of Moscow State Linguistic University where special programmes with linguistics as a major have been implemented to retrain specialists in various professions. It is explained why courses in theoretical Linguistics could be useful and highly recommendable to non-linguistics students trained in the fields of sociology, politics, marketing, law, information technologies, tourism, etc.