Validation of the Lithuanian Version of the Moral Competence Test and Application of the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion in the Language Teaching/Learning Process at Vilnius University in Lithuania

• In Event: Paper Session on Research Related to Moral Development and Education

Abstract

Findings carried out by G. Lind (2016) using his original research instrument – the Moral Competence Test – suggest that universities lack the capacity to foster students' moral competence development. MCT has been translated into 40 languages having gone through the necessary validation procedure. The research sample consisted of 526 students of English/German/French languages, future foreign language teachers, in the 1st-4th years of studies at two universities in Lithuania (the former Vilnius Pedagogical University and Vilnius University). The majority of the respondents demonstrated low or medium level of moral competence. On the basis of this cross-sectional study (2019–2020), the MCT for Lithuanian has been successfully validated and certified.

Authors

• Roma Kriauciuniene, Vilnius University

• Georg Lind, University of Konstanz