On
March 31, 2021 the work on Second Language Acquisition Syllabus Design started.
The course “Second Language Acquisition” is developed in terms of the Erasmus+
Project 610427-EE-2019-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Foreign Language Teacher Training
Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European
Integration (MultiEd).
It
is an elective course which is going to be introduced in the cycle of
professional courses in the curriculum for Bachelor level full-time students
(Philology and Secondary education branches of knowledge).
The
participants from eight Ukrainian Universities (Zaporizhzhia National
University, Mykolaiv Sukhomlynskyi National University, Cherkasy National
University, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Horlivka
Institute for Foreign Languages, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University,
Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Precarpathian
National University) with the team leader Iryna Zadorozhna take part in Second
Language Acquisition Course Design.
Dr. Elisabeth Wielander (Aston University), who is in
charge of the course development procedure, shares her experience and consults
the Ukrainian partners of the MultiEd consortium.
The team of the partners has to work out Syllabus of
the course, namely its aim, competencies, learning outcomes, to define and
correlate program and course learning outcomes,that comprise students`
knowledge, skills, communication, autonomy and responsibility.
Three meetings have already been held. The themes of
the modules, their theoretical and practical components, as well as Learning
Objectives and Outcomes have already been defined, discussed and approved by
all the members of the team.
There
is still a lot of work ahead, but well-coordinated and productive team work
proves that the Second Language Acquisition Syllabus design will have been completed
according to the schedule by May, 15.
