Conduct of modern science– 2016 • Díl 1

MATERIALS OF THE XVI INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE ★ March 30 - April 7, 2020
objectives preferably specified in terms of learning outcomes and competences to be 
acquired. Students can earn academic credits for any type of study program: modules, 
courses, placements, dissertation work, and others, and they express the work required 
for successfully completing the program. Through academic credits, students get a 
consistent and transparent way of valuing their learning achievements. The awarded 
credits are recorded in a credit transcript that can lead to a qualification.
M ain benefits of academic credit systems:
*Credits support students’ entry to a higher education program;
*They keep track of student progress and determine when he/she has met 
study requirements;
*They estimate the workload of a program;
*Students can transfer to another university program while keeping part or all 
previously earned credit points;
*Use the credit you earned to study abroad - academic credit is used and 
recognized internationally;
*Academic credits act as proof of previous studies when looking for a job; 
*Some universities use academic study credits to set degree costs.
However, students have to solve life situations and simultaneously analyze 
them from the position of one's own and «alien» culture. It can automatically and often 
subconsciously make awareness of foreign languages an essential part of academic 
credit system. Knowledge of foreign language, in our case it is English, develops 
number of qualities, which enable students to communicate and interact with the 
outside world, with foreigners, to compare certain conditions, to recognize lack of 
knowledge, which are considered to be impetus for learning, knowledge of other 
cultures studied from the inside. Studying abroad a student will not only be the object 
of influencing certain cultural traditions, norms, values, but also the subject, the 
«transmitter» of their culture in another society. Upon returning home, the student will 
receive not only new knowledge, but also be able to carry this knowledge to other 
people surrounding them.
Unfortunately, the importance of foreign language is often overlooked. Despite 
our great efforts to study, foreign languages misunderstandings and misconceptions are 
commonplace. Being unable to communicate in a country is akin to living with a
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