The role of professional language summer schools in the context of informal education of Russian university students

The article highlights the role of Russian-Austrian Summer Language Schools as an informal component in the system of professional language training for future specialists in the field of law. The possibility to join the double diploma program in the frame of academic mobility which is successfully realized in the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) since the Russian Federation joined the Bologna process implies that each student should develop an individual educational trajectory. It enables students to set concrete objectives of the training, to control the training stages, to introduce the necessary corrections, to assess objectively the achieved results and to support the concept of the modern educational paradigm “from learning for life to lifelong learning”. The examples given in the article prove the potential of Summer Language Schools for future lawyers enhancing their responsibility for the results of the educational activity, their selfassessment based on individual significant criteria, motivating the learners to build up their competencies of team activities on the principles of mutual respect and understanding.