The specific subject content of multilingual principles

Abstract

Multilingual receptive competence is a component of multilingual competence; it is a functional competence and it is aimed at fulfilling a special task of getting information from foreign texts in different languages. Multilingual competence acquisition sets the task of renovating the specific content of the subject to be taught. The article describes regularities common for different languages and essential features of the language which can serve as orientation base for multilingual competence acquisition. According to the authors point of view, the linguistic concept of profound and surface structures can become such a base.