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LANGUAGE STUDIES IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALIZATION IN LATVIA
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The development of the common European Higher Education Area and the internationalization of higher education have led to challenges many higher education institutions (HEIs) have never encountered before. The evolving educational paradigm takes roots in significant changes in the political, economic, etc. systems of Latvia, first due to regained independence of the Latvian state and the change of its ideological paradigm in the beginning of the 1990-ies, later due to the accession of Latvia to the European Union in 2004. Latvia has become part of the Bologna process concerning higher education, of the Copenhagen process which concerns vocational education and training; in 2009 the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training ("ET 2020") was adopted concerning pre-school, primary, basic, secondary, higher and vocational education in the EU countries. All these developments are crucial contributors to the foundation and promotion of international education in Latvia. The research problem is determined by the indispensable and urgent necessity to explore the preparation level and the actual state of internationalization process implementation in the sector of higher education in Latvia placing language issues (global vs. local language/-s) as the main research focus. The research question underlying the research paper is formulated as follows - what changes should be introduced to higher education curriculum and professional training of the faculty staff in view of the new direction of the higher education sector towards the international learning space. The paper reports the results of the analysis of the internationalization practices undertaken by Latvian HEI involved to cope with the global academic environment and the findings of the content analysis of narratives revealing the benefits and challenges related to internationalization processes.
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