The second summer school of the MultiEd project "Multilingualism and beyond"

The second summer school of the MultiEd project "Multilingualism and beyond"

The second summer school "Multilingualism and beyond" under the Erasmus+ MultiEd project, held at the University of Tartu, Estonia, has ended. Representatives of partner Ukrainian universities from Kharkiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk took part in the school. Horliv Institute of Foreign Languages was presented by the project manager, assistant professor of the Department of English Philology and Translation Shkuropat M.Yu. The school program included the study of the concepts of multilingualism and multiculturalism, types of bilingualism and multilingualism, phenomena: language contact, linguistic capital, linguistic landscape, receptive multilingualism, language awareness and language ideology. The participants listened to lectures by specialists in multilingualism, in particular the professor of Tallinn University Anna Vershik, carried out research, took part in discussions, and gave presentations. The result of the ten-day training was the development of multilingual education strategies for each Ukrainian partner university and national recommendations for the development of multilingual higher education in Ukraine. The strategy of multilingual education of the GIIIM will be presented for discussion to the scientific and pedagogical team - for familiarization, feedback, clarifications and the development of specific actions regarding its implementation. After that, the strategy will be approved by the Academic Council of the State Institute of Medical Sciences for the purpose of its further implementation. Implementation of the strategy will primarily involve strengthening the role of the Ukrainian language in the educational process and outside it, all kinds of promotion of the English language as a language of learning, career building and intercultural communication, as well as supporting the study of other European languages.

Vladislav Wanda