This year, the faculty of the Department of Ukrainian Language, the Institute of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Lviv Polytechnic National University, organised the second International Spring School for International Applicants of Lviv Polytechnic. The School was held in a remote format. Myroslava Hnatiuk, Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language, was responsible for the International Language School.
The event took place from 18 February to 22 April 2025 and was aimed at enhancing cooperation with the Union of Ukrainian Teachers and Educators in the United Kingdom by providing professional consultations on the Ukrainian language to potential foreign applicants, as well as creating opportunities for foreign applicants to determine their future life path, choose a profession and attract foreign applicants to study under the programmes offered by Lviv Polytechnic National University.
The following key topics were covered:
- Phonetics and means of melodiousness of the Ukrainian language (M. Hnatiuk, I. Hryhorovych);
- Orthographic norms of the Ukrainian literary language (Z. Kunch, I. Mentynska);
- Lexical norms of the Ukrainian literary language (L. Kharchuk, V. Diakiv);
- Morphological norms of the Ukrainian literary language (O. Lytvyn, T. Vitvitska);
- Syntactic norms of the literary Ukrainian language (H. Horodylovska, S. Bulyk-Verkhola);
- Ukrainian punctuation (I. Shmilyk, L. Rotko).
Associate Professor Oksana Lytvyn, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Language, on behalf of the Polytechnic community, sincerely expressed the gratitude to Inna Hryhorovych, Chair of the Association of Ukrainian Teachers (AUT), Headteacher of the St. Mary’s Ukrainian School in London, and to her deputies, Tetiana Vitvitska and Liudmyla Rotko, for supporting the initiative to hold such a career guidance event. We are convinced that our joint efforts will improve the language skills of children who have been internally displaced to the UK due to the war in Ukraine, help them successfully pass NMT outside Ukraine and learn more about the admissions campaign at Lviv Polytechnic National University.
The future graduates participating in the International Language School also expressed their gratitude to the organisers of the intensive courses, as they need qualified support to be able to successfully pass the National Multiple Subject Test in a foreign environment, or to become more confident in the exam itself or to improve their knowledge of the language.
