SHIFTING THE PARADIGM OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HEIS TOWARDS EU RECOMMENDATIONS
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https://doi.org/10.31499/2306-5532.1-2.2025.346714Keywords:
Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, HEIs, mediating a text, mediating communication, mediating concepts, mediation competencies, mediation strategiesAbstract
The article deals with recent amendments in CEFR and their influence on school and university education in Ukraine in terms of teaching foreign languages. The article outlines what mediation is and what the rationale of developing mediation competencies is. The authors provide examples of the situations, where mediation competencies application is vital to build mutual understanding. The article gives the understanding of the current situation in secondary education in terms of mediation competencies development. They share hands-on experience of challenges the English teachers are facing in terms of changing the focus of their lessons to mediation skills. Also the article flags up the potential threats for HEIs connected with the requirements of the State Standard for Upper-Secondary Education to summatively assess mediation competencies only at the schools with advanced language learning. And the authors provide certain recommendations for HEIs, how to develop mediation competencies of the students enrolled and what the university professors can do to shift the focus of their language lessons to mediation competencies development.
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