This project focuses on helping English teachers improve the teaching of English in Ukrainian secondary schools by exploring new orientations to the English language. This involves recognising the diversity of English as a global language and moving away from focusing solely on "native speaker" standards in our classrooms.

The project also aims to empower female teachers, who make up the majority of English teachers in Ukraine, by increasing their confidence in their teaching abilities and providing them with useful resources.

Through research and teacher training workshops, this project will help teachers develop new teaching strategies that reflect the realities of modern language use and support their professional growth. By doing so, we seek to make language teaching more effective, relevant, and supportive for both teachers and their students.

You can find out more about decolonising English language teaching pedagogy here:

https://juice-journal.com/2021/11/23/decolonising-english-language-teaching-pedagogy/

This project is being jointly conducted by the University of York, the University of East London, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, and is being funded by the British Council as part of an English Language Teaching Research Award

Meet our research team

Professor Ursula Lanvers

University of York, UK

Ursula's research focuses on language education policy, the psychology of language learning, and global English.

Contact Ursula if you have any general research enquiries.

ursula.lanvers@york.ac.uk

For more information about Ursula's research please see her website:

https://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/ursula-lanvers/

Associate Professor Tetyana Lunyova

Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukraine

University of York, CARA Visiting Fellow

Tetyana's research focuses on language policy in Ukraine and decolonised TESOL practices and current challenges of Teaching English in Ukraine.

Contact Tetyana for general research enquiries and implementation questions.

tetyana.lunyova@york.ac.uk

For more information about Tetyana's research please see her website:

https://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/tetyana-lunyova/

Professor Rachel Wicaksono

University of East London, UK

Rachel's research focuses on orientations to English and the implications of this for learning, teaching, and assessment.

Contact Rachel for general research enquiries and questions about our project conference Summer 2025 (Academic facing)

r.wicaksono@uel.ac.uk

For more information about Rachel's research please see her website:

https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/staff-profiles/rachel-wicaksono.php

Professor Maryna Zuyenko

Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukraine

Maryna's research focuses on English teaching and English Literature of the 18th century.

Contact Maryna for questions about implementation of this project in Ukraine.

For more information about Maryna's research please see her website:

http://ifl.pnpu.edu.ua/dyrektor-instytutu

Doctor Louisa Field

University of York, UK

Research Associate

Louisa's research focuses on language learning and student motivation. Louisa's recently submitted PhD examined how to improve foreign language participation in Australian schools.

louisa.field@york.ac.uk

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