PhD S.Y. Kanina¹
Associate Professor, PhD O.E. Romanovskaya¹
PhD E.V. Ermolaeva^1
1Ulyanovsk State Pedagogikal University, Ulyanovsk

The given study overviews the growing roles and challenges of the newborn sport service volunteer movement in Russia, with still poor sport-specific English speaking skills being ranked among the most critical problems. The authors offer a new sports-specific ‘English language for international sport event servicing’ express-course developed and piloted at Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov and applicable to train school/ university students willing to join the sport volunteer system. The express-course makes a special emphasis on the efficient learning techniques and sport-specific glossaries with the standard phrases and idiomatic expressions and other tools to secure fast progress in the modern sport-specific English. The present article gives practical learning recommendations and overviews a set of special practices to improve the bilingual skills of the future sport volunteers for success in their practical service.

Keywords: sports events, volunteer movement, teaching professional English vocabulary, communication in foreign languages, language proficiency, lexical selection.

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