OPPORTUNITIES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS WITH STUDENTS HAVING ACQUIRED AN INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE

Based on the direct and everyday work in class, this paper brings into debate a problem noticed with the new generations of students joining the English language classes of non-philological profile. Because certain signs of misunderstanding as for the scope of the acknowledgement provided by the internationally language certificates, and especially concerning its appliance within the university system, have been noticed with the freshmen of the latest years, a thorough investigation of the matter seemed appropriate. It revealed that careful consideration should be given to the needs of those who registered in, sat for and passed a recognised examination in English, taking into account the set of expectations some of them had mistakenly assumed. Key words: acknowledged competence, expectations fulfilment, tests ’ further recognition Disputed usefulness and controversial benefits It seems that the younger generations are more and more inclined to sit for an internationally recognized examination in order to obtain a language certificate. It is not only the desire to learn and test own knowledge of the foreign language, but it increasingly develops into a kind of a fashion among the high-school students. There is nevertheless much right in their taking such an endeavour as the Romanian opening towards the global market implies appropriation of internationally applied rules and regulations i