Various forms of international scientific and educational cooperation are practices in Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. This academic cooperation allows not only to study the best examples of work of foreign colleagues, but also to share the experience of our University. On November 5, 2021, Professor of the Department of Translation and Slavic Philology, Doctor of Philology, Professor N.S.Kudriavtseva gave an online lecture for higher education students studying at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA).
N.S.Kudriavtseva gave an English lecture “Thirty years of the revival of the Ukrainian language: challenges and prospects” during a webinar on the ZOOM platform with the assistance of the Ukrainian Studies Organization at Indiana University.
The researcher examined the evolution of Ukrainian ideologies using the paradigm of language revival, briefly highlighted the development of modern standard Ukrainian language since the nineteenth century, noting certain conditions that shaped the perception of Ukrainian as a threatened language at the time of Ukraine\s Independence in 1991.
Prof. Kudriavtseva spoke in detail about the transformation of these ideas (language ideologies) since independence and their potential for the revival of language in Ukraine. The lecturer further explained how linguistic purism, i.e. the excessive desire for the purity of literary language, and the idealization of linguistic standards in the 1990s were replaced by a more favorable attitude to less standardized speech in the 2000s, and how perceptions declaring the presence of Ukrainian language under threat were overcome after the Euromaidan of 2013-2014.
The conclusion of the lecture is based on the results of an ethnographic study of free Ukrainian language courses – a mass initiative of volunteer instructors who teach Russian-speakers in Ukraine.
For reference. Prof. Kudriavtseva studies language policies, identitites, and Ukrainian language education, along with related fields of second language pedagogy, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. Her recent scientific research has focused on the spread of the Ukrainian language among Russian speakers: in addition it explores how general perceptions of language i.e. language ideologies, affect the desire of Russian-speakers in Ukraine to learn and use Ukrainian.