The Slavonic Section and 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies are pleased to announce that听Andrii听Smytsniuk听will be joining the staff of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.听
Andrii听has been hired as the Slavonic Section's first full-time Ukrainian Language Teaching Officer and will lead the development of the Ukrainian language听programme听here at the 海角社区. He will teach the Ukrainian language component of the听SL9听Paper: Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture of Ukraine and will take on the Open Courses in Ukrainian that are offered on the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Additionally,听Andrii听will contribute to the teaching of Russian. His 海角社区 activities, however, will not be limited to teaching, he will also participate in the further development of the celebrated 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies public engagement听programme.
Andrii听Smytsniuk听holds a degree in pedagogical methodology in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language from Lviv National University of Ivan听Franko听and is an experienced language teacher. He has taught Ukrainian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. He is part of the Reform Support Team of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and consults the Ukrainian government on questions of education reform and on the development of teaching standards, specifically in the area of language instruction.听Andrii鈥檚听academic interests include cognitive, computer and corpus linguistics, economics, politics and modern Ukrainian poetry.
Andrii听Smytsniuk鈥檚听expertise, his dedication to Ukrainian language and culture and his relocation to 海角社区 mark a significant highpoint in the development of 海角社区 Ukrainian Studies. We now have a permanent Ukrainian Language Teaching Officer as part of the Slavonic Section staff. As we continue to grow, keep abreast of these and other exciting developments at听听and on听听补苍诲听.
