Education

ABSTRACT: The demands of europeanization of foreign language teaching in university contexts requiring meeting standards or standardised descriptors shared within Europe and being available for a variety of purposes depending on specific institutional contexts and requirements are dealt with in this paper. To satisfy the demands of europeanization, a foreign language standard for technically orientated universities is being constructed at Brno University of Technology. Students’, postgraduates’, other language teachers’, subject specialists’, and some future employers ’ needs are being collected and analysed. The format of the standard is based on the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment ” (Council of Europe, 2001), which provides a sound basis for the mutual recognition of language qualifications thus supporting the language department accountability at a technical university. The system of standardised evaluation descriptors reflecting students ’ professional orientation and European scales and levels will accompany language skills of listening, reading, writing, spoken interaction and spoken production at the level B1 (a lower level of an independent user) and the level B2 (a higher level of an independent user). The author also believes that word descriptors will help students in the planning of self-directed learning including raising their awareness of their present state of knowledge, self-setting of objectives, selection of materials and self-assessment.