Multiple Impact of International Cooperation in the Language Education of Children in Ukraine after 1991

  • Olga Yevgenivna Misechko Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/mjse.2017.0612.08

Abstract

The article analyses the issue of international partnership in plurilingual language education as a prerequisite of creating common grounds for productive communication in a pan-European area, part of which Ukraine is. In this context, the past and present day practices in teaching and learning foreign languages in Ukraine have been described. The historical retrospection in the regular practice of language school education in the 19th-20th centuries proves that although plurilingualism has been a constant trend of the individual existence a multilingual and multicultural setting of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, it has never been really valued as a factor of personal, academic or professional development of an individual and the society as a whole. New social and individual perspectives that have opened in Ukraine after proclaiming state independence in August 1991 inspired the demand for real-life communicative skills in foreign languages. The key intention of the paper is to show how significantly foreign language education has been facilitated by a start of active cooperation with Western educational and cultural institutions. The narration ends with conclusions that stress the necessity of reciprocal efforts on the part of Ukraine and its partners to get a synergetic effect of their collaboration.    

Author Biography

Olga Yevgenivna Misechko, Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University

Doctor of Pedagogy (History and Methodology of Professional Training from the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv), Professor.

As professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Modern Teaching Techniques, teaches such academic subjects as “Methodology of teaching English to school-children”, “Modern techniques of teaching English to different age-groups of learners”, “Developing intercultural competence through English”, and delivers practical classes of English to master’s students. The issues of scientific interest are theory and methodology of teaching foreign languages, multiculturalism and plurilingualism, development of intercultural competence, training teachers of foreign languages, history of elementary, secondary and tertiary education in Ukraine, history of foreign language education in Ukraine, theory and methodology of pedagogy. 

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Published
2017-12-30
How to Cite
Misechko, O. Y. (2017). Multiple Impact of International Cooperation in the Language Education of Children in Ukraine after 1991. Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education, 6(2 (12). https://doi.org/10.35765/mjse.2017.0612.08
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Vol. 6 No. 2 (12) (2017): The Synergy of Educational Environments
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