Education topic in All-Russian English language Olympiad

Abstract

The article considers the tasks of All-Russian English Language School Olympiad (ARELSO or Olympiad) dedicated to the topic of education. The Year of the Teacher and Mentor stimulates a keen interest in educative value of school subjects and their career guidance opportunities, and also of various contests and Olympiads for gifted and talented schoolchildren. The author emphasizes the importance of ARELSO as a means to identify schoolchildrens future vocational orientation. Outlining researchers contribution to the field of developing gifted childrens potential, and preparing them for intellectual contests and Olympiads, we have to admit the absence of full-scale research into subject matter of Olympiad tasks. The relevance of the study is determined by a thorough analysis of the 2009/20102022/2023 Olympiad tasks, and, based on the authors experience as an Olympiad tasks designer, an attempt to offer examples of municipal level tasks dedicated to the topic of education. Such tasks can be found in all parts of the Olympiad (Listening, Reading, Use of English, Writing). The author emphasizes the thematic importance of the Olympiad and the necessity of regularly designing education topic tasks with the aim of schoolchildrens vocational orientation.