Ships of all flags will come to us!(A.S. Pushkin)
The Festival of Cultures and Languages was held at HSE Nizhny Novgorod on February 20, 22 2023. ALaTA first- and second-year students, and also 2022 programme graduates took part in the Festival. The programme academic supervisor Edita Merkulova moderated the festival’s section called “The Language Mosaics”.
Our students and graduates recited poems by Alexander Pushkin in their native languages. Austin Sites), the USA recited the poem in English; Charles Asamoah from Ghana performed it in Asante TWI – one of the local languages in Ghana (it is interesting to note, that our student translated the poem into his native language by himself); The programme 2022 graduates : Mehmed Kerem Baysal from Turkey read the poem in Turkish; Olivier Mozard Tiotsop Kamou from Cameroon recited the poem in French.
You can watch and listen to our students’ performance if you follow the link:
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/P503HK_6oWZneg
Our second-year students prepared 2 presentations in which they shared with the participants of the Festival the results of their research. The first report presented by Abdou Wael Sayed Ahmed Mohamed from Egypt; Jimoh Nurudeen Oluwaseun from Nigeria; Wan Muhammad Ariff Bin Rahmat from Singapore ; Tursunov Asadulla Otaboy ogli from Uzbek republic, dealt with the problem of endangered languages. They discussed the situation with the Berber language in modern Egypt.
The other report, prepared by Mikulinsky Artem, Novikova Valeria,and Zhdanova Valeriaresearched thecorrelation between the school children’s motivation for studying English and several variables, such as the school children’s age, gender, and attainment at school. The findings of this research aroused interest of the audience, as they proved to go counter the existing stereotypes.