Project name: “Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies”
Project number: 2022-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000089331
Project acronym: eRead
Priority: Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices
Action type: KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Project duration: 01.12.2022 – 30.11.2025
Project lump sum: € 400000
Target groups: current and future language teachers, international students, residents of the partner countries with limited skills in the national language, and people from all over the world who would like to improve their skills in Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, or Ukrainian.
Grant holder: the University Tartu, Estonia
Coordinator and General Manager: Oleksandra Golovko, PhD in Linguistics (the University Tartu, Estonia)
Project objectives: to develop challenging learning materials and empower current and future foreign/second language teachers with knowledge, experience, and tools to develop the reading skills of their students digitally, to design a digital open-source course that will help develop the reading skills of international students and other people who want to improve their Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, or Ukrainian.
The project’s goals are:
- to share our experience and study other available EU experiences.
- to develop a BA module “Teaching Reading Digitally” that will be integrated into the course “Methods of Teaching Languages”.
- to develop a professional development course for in-service language teachers “Teaching Reading Digitally”.
- to develop 4 interactive online courses “Reading Skills: B1” for 4 different languages (Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, Ukrainian).
Project results:
- a BA module “Teaching Reading Digitally” integrated into the course “Methods of Teaching Languages”;
- a professional development course “Teaching Reading Digitally” offered to in-service language teachers;
- four language courses “Reading Skills: B1” integrated into the learning process of international students during the language year or offered to anyone willing to master this language.
Project team
Gennadiy Vasylchuk
Dr. of Sci in History, Full Professor, Vice Rector for Research
Phone: +38 (061) 228-75-04
Email: vasilchuk@znu.edu.ua
Maryna Zaluzhna
PhD in Philology, associate professor of the English Philology and Linguodidactics Department
Phone: +38 (061) 289-12-59
Email: zaluzhna_mari@ukr.net
Natalia Vengerska
PhD in Economics, associate professor of the International Economics, Natural Resources and Economics of International Tourism Department
Phone: +38 (061) 228-76-29
Email: nataljavengerskaja@ukr.net
Natalia Nadtochii
PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor, acting head of the English Philology and Linguodidactics Department
Phone: +38 (061) 289-12-59
Email: nadnathaly@gmail.com
Iryna Bakalenko
PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor of the Ukrainian Literature Department
Phone: +38 (061) 289-12-75
Email: irinabakalenko1970@gmail.com
Olga Stadnichenko
PhD in Philology, associate professor, Head of the Ukrainian Studies Department
Phone: +38 (061) 289-12-82
Email: stadnichenkoo-1@ukr.net
