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.
