Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration – MultiEd

KKNU structure involved: School of Foreign Languages
Project manager: Olena Morozova
Project Web page: http://www.multied.com.ua/
Erasmus+ Action type: Capacity Building in Higher Education
Project reference: 610427-EPP-1-2019-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Duration: 15 November 2019 – 14 November 2023
Coordinator: University of Tartu, Estonia
Budget: 900,099,00 €

Summary

The major reason behind MultiEd is the need for improving language skills of the population in Ukraine through reforming the curricula of the teachers of foreign languages, introducing new foreign language educational approaches and CLIL (content and language integrated learning) methodology, doing a survey and developing multilingual education strategies for universities and consequently developing National Recommendations on Multilingual Higher Education and internationalization in Ukraine. The results of MultiEd are the following:1) 8 new courses designed, 14 courses upgraded, reformed 8 BA and 8 MA curricula for teachers of foreign languages introduced, new teaching practices adopted, National Guidelines on TFL curricula produced;2) content-based instruction offered to BA, MA, PhD students to increase their employability and career opportunities; 3) multilingual education strategies and national recommendations on multilingual higher education and internationalization designed, internationalization level of universities improved;4) e-course ˮCLIL methodologyˮ delivered; 5) the platform for the introduction of regular trainings for in-service teachers created, lifelong learning efficient practices promoted to the level when they provide sustainable professional development of teachers;6) policy makers made aware of EU strategies and approaches in HE, multilingual instruction and are provided with specific guidelines to support reform of education. The impact envisaged features the support of the educational reform ˮNew Ukrainian Schoolˮ initiating a long-term impact on UA HEIs due to the multiplication of the project practices on institutional, regional, national and international level.

Partners:

University of Tartu, Estonia
Heidelberg University of Education, Germany
Aston University, UK
Interlink Academy, NGO, Germany
Zaporizhzhia National University
V. O. Sukhomlinskyi National University of Mykolaiv
Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
Poltava National Pedagogical University
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages
Ternopil National Pedagogical University
Vasyl Stefanyk Ivano-Frankivsk National University
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
All-Ukrainian Association of English Teachers ˮTESOL-Ukraineˮ, NGO