Published: 15 July 2009
A survey to find out how globalization affects students’ foreign language competence has been conducted by the author. Over four years hundreds of fist and second year students were interviewed at the universities in the Far Eastern cities of Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The research was focused on motivations students have to learn languages and how they use foreign languages in their lives. The article highlights the most important results of the survey.