The Acquisition of Slavic as a Foreign Language as a Condition for Successful Integration of Refugees (On the Situation of Ukrainian Medics in the Czech Republic)

Elena Krejcova, Tereza Bojanovska
Masaryk University
Nadezhda Stalyanova
Sofia University

https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-03-07

Abstract. The aim of this paper is to present the problems of second language acquisition (Slavic by Slavs) in a specific socio-political context. The text deals with the situation of Ukrainian refugees, medics who need to master Czech in order to take a professional qualification exam, and are placed in a specific psycholinguistic situation - they need to quickly acquire both the basics of the second language from the elementary level of training, and specialized medical terminology, usually in a very limited timeframe. In this study, we point out some types of typical mistakes made by Ukrainian medics learning mainly specialized (medical) Czech. The results of such an analysis provide an opportunity to classify the errors, highlight the typical characteristics of Czech in the Slavic comparative context through the prism of language learning, and from a methodological point of view, which can indicate some of the most common places requiring additional and detailed attention in the learning process, especially for a specific group of students with specific goals within their studies.
Keywords: second language acquisition; Slavonic languages; Ukrainian refugees

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