Multilingual education in Ukraine: development and innovations at the School of Foreign Languages of Karazin University

Over the past decade, higher education in Ukraine has been restructured with the aim of integrating into the European educational space in accordance with the principles of student-centered learning, quality assurance, accessibility and inclusion. The basis for the construction of the European educational space is language competencies. They are indispensable for the mobility, cooperation and mutual understanding of people who share borders, providing them with a wider and more diverse educational experience.

Education should provide a rich linguistic repertoire and an understanding of what languages should be studied for what purpose. Language education should respect the heritage of the mother tongue, as well as prepare young people for a globalized world with English as the lingua franca and other foreign languages.

Wide opportunities for this are provided by multilingual education, which enriches the intercultural and international experience of students, expands understanding of the international dimension of the disciplines studied by students, and this contributes to the success of their life in a diverse world, successful employment, which is the key to a reliable professional future.

School of Foreign Languages of Karazin University works in the following areas:

updating Bachelor's, Master's and PhD programs in the specialty 035 Philology in accordance with the standards of the European Union;
adaptation and implementation of advanced methods of teaching foreign languages in the educational process, including interactive methods, student-centered learning, communicative methods, CLIL methodology;
increasing the level of ICT competence of teachers and students;
popularization of the idea of blended learning and lifelong learning.

Participation of School of Foreign Languages in international projects:

Erasmus+ KA2 610427-EPP-1-2019-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP “Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration” (MultiEd)
Erasmus+ KA220 2022-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000089331 “Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies (eREAD)
Erasmus+ KA2 (№101128713-DigiFLEd-ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE) “Modernisation of University Education Programmes in Foreign Languages by Integrating Information Technologies (DigiFLEd)

Responsible person

Svitlana Virotchenko
Dean of School of Foreign Languages
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor
E-mail: s.a.virotchenko@karazin.ua