On the other hand, teaching subject in a foreign language can become a serious handicap for students, if they have a low level of English, which is often a case in many non-speaking English countries including Russia. In some countries (for example, Turkey) there is an intermediate year of English (between secondary and tertiary education) aimed at preparing students to learn their academic subjects through EMI. The question is how effective this year in preparing students and how to make English programmes effective in enhancing student performance in EMI content learning. Nevertheless, it is one of the possible solutions and measures are being undertaken. In other countries (for example, Russia) there are no preparatory classes for students and this creates significant difficulties for the students with low level of English since they are not able to perceive the information, make notes and/or respond in English even though they reveal strong knowledge of the subject in their native language. In such cases all what we can do is to provide the students intensive support and adopt the programmes so to help our students feel comfortable and avoid stress while overcoming difficulties with the foreign language.