Associate Professors Iryna Matiash-Hnedyuk and Tetiana Hulyak of the Department of English Philology successfully completed an international internship at the University of Jaume I (Spain), which took place from March 2 to 29 as part of the EDUC-WIDE project (Expanding EDUC Opportunities for Inclusive ERA Development).
Iryna Matiash-Hnedyuk implemented the program “English Accents in the Spanish Classroom: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Academic Practices,” dedicated to issues of the perception of English accents in a Spanish-speaking educational environment, the specifics of their acquisition, and academic practices in English language teaching.
Tetyana Hulyak’s program, “Multimodal Approaches to SLA: From Usage-Based Theory to Digital Learning Environments,” is aimed at researching the impact of multimodal language input and digital technologies on second language acquisition processes.
The program mentors were leading scholars from the Department of English at Jaume I University: Professor Richard Nightingale and Professor Laura Portolés Falomir.
Interacting with Spanish colleagues, including Gema Gayete Dominguez, Maria Reyes Sayas Cano, Nerea Peraire Queral, and Andreea Izabela Gorgoteanu, helped them immerse themselves in the university ecosystem and try job shadowing.
As part of the internship, our university’s faculty members delivered lectures and seminars for students, familiarized themselves with the organization of the educational process and teaching practices at Jaume I University, and collected empirical data for future research.
International academic mobility is an integral part of the development of a higher education institution and contributes to the implementation of innovative methods in the educational process and the deepening of academic partnerships.
