Authentic listening has become a part of CLIL materials, but it can be difficult to find listening materials that perfectly match the language level, length requirements, content, and cultural context of a course. The difficulty of finding appropriate materials online, financial limitations posed by copyright fees, and necessity to produce intellectual work led to the idea of designing videos specifically for a university level CLIL course. This article presents a brief overview of current approaches to creating CLIL materials, gives rationale for recording of CLIL audio-visual materials, and discusses their challenges. It provides an example of audio-visual materials design for listening comprehension taking into consideration educational and cultural contexts, course content, and language learning outcomes of the program. In addition, it discusses advantages and limitations of created audio-visual materials by contrasting them with authentic materials of similar type found on YouTube. According to a pilot survey, language used in recorded CLIL videos is easier to understand than the language used in YouTube videos. The content of CLIL videos is more related to students' life and they experience more positive emotions while watching them. CLIL videos bridge the gap between the concepts studied and a local culture making the learning more meaningful and enjoyable.Key words: CLIL materials; culture; foreign language; listening; video recordings. La cultura a través de la comparación: la creación de materiales audiovisuales de escucha para un curso AICLE ResumenLa escucha de textos auténticos se ha convertido en una parte de los materiales AICLE, pero puede ser difícil encontrar materiales de escucha que coincidan perfectamente con el nivel de lengua, los requisitos en cuanto a longitud, contenido y contexto cultural de un curso específico. La dificultad de encontrar materiales apropiados en línea, las limitaciones financieras impuestas por las tarifas de derechos de autor y la necesidad para producir trabajo intelectual condujeron a la idea de diseñar videos específicamente para un curso AICLE de nivel universitario. Este artículo presenta una breve descripción de los enfoques actuales para la creación de materiales AICLE, fundamenta algunos principios para la grabación de material audiovisual de AICLE y analiza los retos en este proceso. También, proporciona un ejemplo de diseño de materiales audiovisuales para la comprensión auditiva teniendo en cuenta los contextos educativos y culturales, el contenido del curso y los resultados del programa de aprendizaje de la lengua. Además, el artículo analiza las ventajas y restricciones del material audiovisual creado, contrastándolo con materiales auténticos de corte similar que se encuentran en YouTube. Según la encuesta de la fase de pilotaje, el lenguaje utilizado en los videos AICLE grabados es de más fácil comprensión que el lenguaje utilizado en los videos de YouTube. El contenido de los videos AICLE está más relacionado con la vida de los estudiantes, y s...

The study presents the results of a case evaluating the impact of designed audio-visual materials for English CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) course “Cultures & Societies”. The designed videos were recorded with the purpose to connect the cultural context and content of the course and make students’ learning more significant, and thus more long-term. The purpose of the study is to identify if the designed materials have achieved the goal of providing relevant content and language that would be significant to students’ lives and results in long-term learning. During the second semester of 2016 in “Cultures & Societies” English CLIL class, students were exposed to 23 designed videos-interviews and 5 videos on similar cultural topics from other authors used from the YouTube. During the first months of the course students were exposed to 3 designed videos and 3 videos from YouTube. Students (n=15) completed a survey immediately after watching each video, indicating their perceptions of the videos in terms of relevance to their lives, culture, career and language. The results of the survey demonstrated that there was no significant difference in terms of interest and relevance to the subject, as the videos were previously selected for a course. Although students indicated that they were more connected emotionally to the designed videos than other YouTube videos. A week after the semester ended, the teacher conducted semi-structured interviews with students (n=11) soliciting information about what they remembered from videos and why. The interviews were conducted in Spanish. They were transcribed and analyzed via NVIVO qualitative software. Preliminary analysis shows that designed videos do have impact on long-term learning. Students remember the content of some of the videos they were exposed to in class, even though they watched them once three months ago. They highlight the importance of familiar cultural context, truthfulness of statements in the videos-interviews, language elements important to them, and motivation to listen to people with other cultural background, making the course “different” from the rest English classes they had.

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This paper analyses changes of meanings of identity in competing projects of national identity in case of debates among the Ukrainian elites on the issue of Euro-Atlantic integration in 2008 and 2018. The author identifies three projects of identity, which are based on a different understanding of foreign policy in relation to Euro-Atlantic integration. The most significant change of identity is the dominant position of the pro-Euro-Atlantic discourse that was contested in 2008 by the opponents of NATO membership. However, after the transformation of the political context in Ukraine in the post-2014 period, some representatives of the elites continue to support the project of identity in which Ukraine is constructed as a non-bloc state. In both periods the elites reach a consensus on Ukraine's representation as a European and democratic country. Despite changes in the domestic and international contexts, discursive representations of Ukraine as a victim and a colonial state, where Russia or the United States presented as aggressors and colonizers, continue to exist. The changes in dynamics of national identity are as follows: expansion of an identity representation on a larger audience, a “shift” of a representation into another category within the same discourse, and “borrowing” and adoption of a representation by competing identity discourses.

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