Keyword: «tourist destinations»

Using local history materials in school and university education while discussing a semantic field ‘Historical and archaeological sites in Karelia’

Authors:

Ernest Cipkin,

Janna Voinova

The article highlights effective ways of discussing the topic ‘Historical and archaeological sites in Karelia’ in the frame of teaching the course of local history of Karelia. Provided materials can be used with junior language and humanities university students and English language high school students. The article sums up the authors’ personal experience of teaching Karelian local history course to Linguistics majors and Education majors in foreign languages at Petrozavodsk State University and demonstrates the authors’ set of discussion tasks.

Keywords: educational project, project activities, intercultural communication, lifelong language learning, local history of karelia, historical and archaeological sites, tourist destinations, intercultural and sociocultural competences, a set of language learning activities