Challenges and Lessons in Multinational Teaching Environment

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Challenges and Lessons in Multinational Teaching
Environment

• Cpt. Andrius KiesasInstitute of Foreign
  LanguagesGeneral Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy
  of Lithuania

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OVERVIEW

• Statistics
• Student Profile
• Clash of cultures
• Conclusions / Open Questions?

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Statistics (Level 2)

• 21 January 2004 (4 months/twice a year)
• 17 Classes
• 166 students
• senior 40
• junior 118
• non-commissioned 4
• civilian cadre 4
• countries

Albania , Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYROM, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Montenegro, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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Statistics (Level 2)
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Statistics (Level 2)
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Statistics (Level 3)

• 31 August 2009
• 4 Classes
• 9 students
• senior officers 2
• junior officers 7
• countries
• Byelorussia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine

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Statistics (Level 3)
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Student Profile

• Expected

Real
Appropriate level of English? Disciplined? Motivat
ed? Able to learn? Adaptable?
Different levels of English if necessary before
STANAG 6001 My father is General I hate
potatoes
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Clash of Cultures

• Axis of the world
• Wishlist and other menus
• Previous experience abroad
• Reconciliation

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CONCLUSIONS /OPEN QUESTIONS?

• Teachers are not only teachers
• Students learn not only English
• Where is the axis of the world?
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