The Romanian Language Preparatory Year

Given the specificity of Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești, there has been a long tradition in teaching foreign students and, consequently in teaching Romanian as a foreign language. On 22nd September 2016, the Collective of Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization was officially founded in order to provide to the foreign students enrolled in the Romanian Language Preparatory Programme an educational and instructive process that fully complies with the new quality standards imposed to the Romanian superior education system. The collective is currently assigned to the Department of Philology, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești.

In the twenty years of the Romanian Language Preparatory Year existence, the Romanian language teachers from Petroleum-Gas University provided high-quality education to hundreds of foreign students coming from Europe, Asia, Africa or America, from countries such as: Angola, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Gabon, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Niger, Palestine, R.P.D. Korea, Senegal, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Yemen.

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The members of the teaching staff have manifested a permanent interest in improving their activity of scientific research in the field of teaching Romanian language as a foreign language, as proven by their publications (books, articles, scientific projects) and participations in national and international symposiums, conferences or training activities. The full list of these publications can be consulted at the Philology Department library (Building A, 2nd floor).

*Organized by the Department of Philology, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești

• International Conference Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină – Dinamică și varietate, 14 – 15 July 2022 
• International Conference Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină – Actualizate și perspectivă, 10 – 11 July 2020
• International Conference Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină– dimensiune a interculturalității, second edition, Ploiești, 13 July 2018, organized in partnership with the Institute of the Romanian Language, Bucharest and Univerza v Ljubljani – Filozofska Fakulteta.
• National Workshop Predarea, receptarea și evaluarea limbii române ca limbă străină – dimensiune a interculturalității, Ploiești, 15 July 2016, organized in partnership with the Institute of the Romanian Language, Bucharest and Univerza v Ljubljani – Filozofska Fakulteta.

*Participations in national and international conferences dedicated to Romanian language as a foreign language (Alba, Cluj, Iași, Constanța, Tg Mures)

• International Conference Limbajul științelor și știința limbajelor. Culturi în dialog, University Ovidius of Constanța, 17-20 May 2018.
• Limba română ca limbă străină, Alba Iulia, 9 June 2017;
• Discurs polifonic în Româna ca limbă străină, Cluj, 2017;
• International Conference Limbajul științelor, știința limbajelor. Perspective didactice, University Ovidius of Constanța, 10-11 June 2017;
• International Symposium Româna ca limbă străină în dialog transcontinental. Valorificarea experiențelor didactice, interculturale și lingvistice în sistemul educational universitar, Iași – Chișinău, 29-31 May 2017;
• International Conference EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY CHALLENGES-TEACHERS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY-3rd edition, EPC-TKS 2015;
• International Conference Social and Cultural Interferences in the Black Sea Region EUBSR 2013;
• International Conference on Education and Educational Psycology, ICEEPSY 2012.

CONFERENCES FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE PREPARATORY YEAR

• International Conference Diversitate culturală în mediul academic, 11 - 12 May 2023
• International Conference Diversitate culturală în mediul academic, 26 - 27 May 2022
• International Conference Diversitate culturală în spațiul academic, 27 - 28 May 2021
• National Workshop Diversitate culturală în spațiul academic românesc, 30 - 31 May 2019 
• National Conference Confluențe etnologice, estetice, literare și lingvistice - EPOS și PATHOS,  27-28 April 2018