Building Presentation and Communication Skills in a Tandem-Taught Course with Plurilingual and Pluricultural Approaches
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter explores the development of a unique pilot project course based on plurilingual and pluriculturalapproaches in language education provided by the Language Centre at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.This CLIL course, named “Development of Communication and Presentation Skills”, was taught by two educators teaching in tandem during the spring semester of 2023. There were threel anguages of instruction—English, Czech and Ukrainian—because the course was designed to address the needs of a particular group of Ukrainian students with diverse educational backgrounds and experience. In addition, these students of very young ages had become war refugees, and their journeys in search for security and safety had exposed them to critical and traumatic expe-riences. Such circumstances always represent a true challenge to any teacher, and this case was no exception. This article provides an overview of the methodology and pedagogical strategies that were employed to create a course taking into account not only the linguistic and cultural dimensions of learning but also the specific needs of thisatypicalgroupofstudents. One significant aim of such courses is to equip students with skills andcompetences important for successful university-level studies. However, this specific situation required one more goal, considering the necessity to account for the particular context and challenges that the Ukrainian students brought to the classroom. This article also reflects on the strengths and benefits of plurilingual and pluricultural approaches in language education, highlighting effective strategies and methodologies in plurilingual and pluricultural teachingand learning process, in order to provide a good practice example. |
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