The teachers of the Foreign languages department Inna Zaitseva, Nina Maliovana, Svitlana Mikhno participated in the winter teacher training school that was held within The English for Universities project which aim is to improve the levels of English in Ukraine’s universities among both university teaching staff and students at which they can fully participate on the international stage. The project objective is to help Ukraine create its own sustainable EL teaching capacity to take students to B2 or C1 CEFR levels; introduce standards based on the recommendations of consultancies assessing what is needed to reach goals of fluency in English amongst more staff and students.

The teachers of the department successfully completed the course «CiVELT (Certificate in Vocational English Language Teaching): Essentials», 35 hours in total. The modules of the course included:

ü  What is ESP?

ü  Understanding Needs

ü  Motivation

ü  Positive Classroom Interaction

ü  Developing Authentic Tasks

ü  Exploiting Vocational Contexts as Resource

ü  Adapting the Given Coursebook

ü  Identifying and Selecting Lesson Aims

ü  Components of the Lesson

ü  Lesson Planning

The experience of the teacher training school is going to be shared at the department to make lessons more efficient and facilitate teaching and studying the English language.