Lecturer of the Department of Germanic Philology  Olesia Yehorova was awarded a scholarship for participation in the programme for German language teachers “Language, Area Studies, and Intercultural Learning” which took place in summer 2019 in Bremen. The programme, which gathered 25 German language teachers from around the globe, primarily focused on the issues of knowledge transfer in the fields of Language and Area Studies, especially within culturological approach, and the typology of tasks and learning forms to reach the desired learning goals, as well as designing the tasks for different learning levels.

Apart from daily seminars and group work, during which the participants were exchanging their experience and best practices, the programme envisaged a plenty of field work to be carried out in the course of interacting with the Bremen students and the city citizens. That enabled the participants to experience Germany and to reflect on their personal understanding and perceptions of the images and discourses of Germany. A great contribution to the intercultural learning was a rich cultural programme offered by the Goethe-Institute. It included excursions, town guided tours, visiting museums, expert visits, etc.
“I am extremely grateful to both organizing teams in Ukraine and in Bremen (especially to Svitlana Balashova, Olena Beketova, Gesine von Ribbeck and Claudia Thies), to all my colleagues from more than 20 countries around the globe, and a special thanks to our unique and extremely professional trainer Helga Würz (Cologne / Berlin). Sumy State University is open to any kind of further cooperation, and we would be glad to welcome you here as visiting lecturers”, says Olesia Yehorova.

Olena Nazarenko,
lecturer of the department of Germanic Philology