Test 2

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The recent modernization of Ukrainian education sector commenced in 2017 when the new Law on Education was adopted; as a consequence, the period of schooling has been lengthened from 11 up to 12 years, new standards of education have been accepted, and school programmes have been updated.

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The pervasive ideology of the extensive transformations expecting school education is delineated in the Ministry document ‘The New Ukrainian School. Conceptual principles of secondary school reform’(2016), in which communication in foreign languages holds next to number-one position of communication in the national language among 10 basic skills, that coincides with the standpoint of the European Commission stating that “language competences will play a key role in creating a European Education Area”.

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The implementation of the Law launched from the first school level in September 1, 2018 and foresees that “the quality of education, in particular, in foreign languages, will be increased”. Thus, the overall percentage of primary school learners starting to learn a foreign language from grade 1 (age 6) has achieved its absolute maximum of 100 percent.

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The strong desire to improve language skills so as to access international collaboration in various domains, and recognition of the utmost importance of language learning in modern societies provoke both Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Ukrainian teachers of English to design effective and efficacious learning strategies.