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Thanks to globalization and the internationalization of higher education, joint international study programs are growing rapidly. The focus of this chapter is on a Finnish-Russian educational project to design, create, implement, and develop a jointly offered study module called “Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners,” known as TeFoLa (25 ECTS).
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Kantelinen, R., Pogosian, V. (2013). Finnish-Russian Cooperation in Teacher Education. In: Tirri, K., Kuusisto, E. (eds) Interaction in Educational Domains. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-395-9_13
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