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The Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University and Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association continue the series of workshops and seminars for language teachers.
On March 26, 2018, teachers were invited to take part in two engaging seminars delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė and lecturer Lina Marčiulionytė ( both work for the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University).
On March 6, 2018 Prof. dr. Danutė Balšaitytė from the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University conducted a seminar on “Media education: necessity and perspectives” for language educators. The seminar was organized by the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University and Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association.
On February 2, 2018, an incredibly large group of language educators gathered to participate in two practical workshops organized by the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association on new and effective language teaching / learning methods.
The seminar “Use of Corpora in Teaching Foreign Languages” was delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lina Bikelienė (Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University), who explained in a detailed way and demonstrated to the participants various possibilities of the use of corpora in foreign language teaching / learning process.
On 24 March, 2017 Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA) organized the traditional annual event “The Baltic Philologist Coffret” award ceremony to award the members of the association for the most prominent contribution and activities, for fostering and ensuring the continuity of the Baltic culture, promoting multilingualism and multiculturalism in the year of 2016.
Every year in March the Baltic Philologist Coffret is given to meritorious members of the association or organizations in accordance with certain pre-specified criteria. The Baltic philologist is a professional, ethical, and enterprising educator. The Baltic Philologist Coffret is attributed to an educator (or an organization) who is fostering and ensuring the continuity of the Baltic culture.
Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) successfully carries out its mission to provide efficient foreign language teaching, offering the broadest range of languages in Lithuania (currently 30 languages on offer), and also to perform research in plurilingual competence development and disseminating the scientific research internationally.
The 4th biennial international conference “Sustainable Multilingualism”, which was organized by IFL on 26-27 May 2017 (11th conference of the Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association, with VMU as one of its founders) rallied over one hundred of researchers and language teaching professionals from over twenty countries of the world for discussion on individual plurilingualism and societal multilingualism in higher education. This year’s conference was exceptional in its focus on language preservation, linguistic human rights, minority language teaching and learning, challenges for culture and identity and continuing discussions on major issues in higher education language policy and language education in multilingual and multicultural learning space.
