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The Department of Foreign Languages of Sumy State University in collaboration with Professor Dr. Gholam-Reza Abbasian, an Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, within the framework of mutual partnership invites to a free in-service course for foreign language teachers, linguists, PhD students and researchers.
Dr. Gholam-Reza Abbasian, is a member of the Teaching English Language & Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) Board of Directors, a presenter at international conferences, an author and a translator of about 15 books. He is an expert in language Testing and Assessment, Research Methods, SLA, and Psycholinguistics, and has supervised about 100 theses and dissertations. He is the internal manager of JOMM, and reviewer of Sage, FLA & GJER and other journals.
This online course aims to improve the professional skills of foreign language teachers by deepening and expanding professional knowledge, skills and abilities.
Technology - Google Meets, language - English, time 18.00 (GMT +3.00)
The course consists of 5 webinars and an individual task.
Course topics
Doing Education Research: Preliminaries - 10th November, 2021
Test Craft - 17th November , 2021
Assessment-based Education - 19th November, 2021
Psycholinguistics & SLA - 24st November, 2021
21st Century Teacher Education - 1st December , 2021
Each webinar lasts 2 academic hours.
The certificate of completion for 30 hours (1 ESCE) will be issued to those participants who have attended all webinars and completed the individual task. A digital version of the certificate will be emailed to participants.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
1) Explain the basic professional concepts in the field of research, professional training, assessment and psycholinguistics
2) Apply the acquired skills in the creating language tests, assessment and implementation of scientific language research in their practice
3) To operate with theoretical concepts from the course in their professional and research activity
4) Build language tests on the proposed model and create a structure of their own educational research
Use the link to register https://forms.gle/mUww56hJi7xn949K6
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Foreign Languages Department
of Sumy State University
welcomes teachers, PhD and Master students
willing to enhance their language assessment literacy
to participate in the two-day workshop
“Developing foreign language instructors’ and future foreign language teachers’ competency in language assessment”
The workshop will be hosted
on October 21-22, 2021
at the Congress center of Sumy State University, Room 102/2
The Workshop is organized in collaboration
with Taras Shevchenko National Iniversity of Kyiv
and the All-Ukrainian Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UALTA)
within the framework of the project
«PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT LITERACY
ACROSS GENERATIONS VIA PRE-SET TEACHER TRAINING
IN UKRAINIAN UNVERSITIES»
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For any questions please feel free to contact Tel.: +380503073149 |
Iryna Lyashenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, applied for and has been granted funding for a project to create online professional courses from the US Embassy. The application was submitted through the NGO TESOL-Ukraine and will be implemented with the involvement of partner universities of Ukraine, including Sumy State University.
The aim of the project is to assist Ukrainian university teachers in creating and teaching online ESP courses that would provide a smooth and flexible transition between distance, blended and contact learning.
The course, which will take place in July 2022 in Odessa, provides a 5-day training for 50 teachers of Ukrainian universities, assistance in developing and publishing online professional courses, conducting a needs analysis for the professional courses and further implementation of results in professional and academic practice.
The list of course presenters includes American experts and Ukrainian graduates of English language OPEN programs alumni, including Iryna Liashenko.
A good teacher is like a candle burning, it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Happy Teachers Day to all the amazing teachers of the world!
The Department of Foreign Languages in collaboration with the Department of German Philology held an interdepartmental scientific seminar "Scientific Texts in English: Modern Trends". The speaker was Tatsenko Nataliia, PHD in Philology, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of Sumy State University. Nataliia Tatsenko highlighted the modern trends and challenges in writing of scientific articles.
The title of an article is a great challenge for young authors and experienced scientists. According to T. Clifford Allbutt, “first impressions are strong impressions; a title ought therefore to be well studied, and to give, as far as its limits permit, a definite and concise indication of what is to come”.
The participants of the seminar learned how to draw the attention of potential readers to scientific researches and give the first idea of the information in the publication with the help of the title.
Rimma Milenkova, associate professor of Foreign Languages Department and cultural programs’ curator, on June, 16 opened an art exhibition at the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine. Sumy State University is already cooperating with NATO in the research sphere through the implementation of the project "Institutional Support for the Center for Regional Security Research in Conducting Regional Security Studies and Assessing the Level of NATO Support.
The art exhibition was a continuation of the interaction on a cultural and educational level. The exhibition, which was the first public event since the pandemic restrictions, was opened by Center director Vineta Kleine and was attended by Deputy Defense Minister I.O. Starobinsky, representatives of military structures, and the Institute for Constructive Journalism and New Media.
The NATO Information Center in Ukraine is an organization that carries out its mission not only through politics and military issues but also through science, culture, art and education. The opening of the exhibition was a confirmation of the broad prospects of interaction with Sumy State University at all levels.
On May 22, 2021, the lecturers of Foreign Languages Department Inna Zaitseva and Maria Sushko-Bezdenezhnykh attended the annual digital congress "Wissen und Lernen im digitalen Zeitalter", organized by the Goethe-Institute. The program of the Congress offered professional development opportunities to German language educators from around the world. The speakers were: Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation Valeria Ionan, Professor of Design “Digitaler Innovationen” Sasha Frizike from Berlin, founder of the successful startup "Petcube" Yaroslav Azhnyuk and many others.
The event focused on the latest digital trends, creative opportunities in the digital world, modern methodological and didactic advice for online lessons etc. All seminars for teachers were conducted in German and all the participants got certificates.
Over the last year, classrooms have closed or moved online and learning has been interrupted. Many learners and educators struggle with motivation or simply knowing how to manage, and stress levels are often high. What have we learned? How are others coping?
In May 2021 the lecturer of Foreign Languages Department Nina Malovana took part in Spring Days 2021 webinar series organized by Pearson Education. The event focused on professional development, learning about the latest trends, and discussing current topics in English language teaching. The speakers of the webinars (Ken Beatty, Leonor Corradi, Phil Warwick, Autumn Westphal, Jane Bledsoe, Donatella Fitzgerald, Andrew Khan) shared some ideas and solutions for lost learning, hybrid learning, techno stress, new approaches to classroom management, teaching, monitoring and student engagement and more. The presenters gave practical recommendations for all levels of learners including mix groups of face-to-face and online learners.
With the speakers of the webinars covering areas from assessment to self-care, there were lots of interesting topics to choose from.
The revived nature comes with the most beautiful spring holiday – Holy Easter. Let it fill our houses with light, our minds with kindness and our works with beauty. As Easter is a time for hope and renewal of spirit, let the spirits guide you to be a better person and make it easy for you. Happy Easter Sunday!
On APRIL 21, 2021 – APRIL 23, 2021 Svitlana Mikhno attended the workshop “E-TOOL” (Teaching Online Opportunity Lab) organised with the financial support from A.S. Hornby Educational Trust and coordinated by the British Council. The workshop “E-TOOL” aimed to create a platform for the Ukrainian EFL teaching community to:
• foster their confidence in using online teaching/learning tools;
• develop their own and students’ digital literacies;
• exchange positive practices.
The programme consisted of workshops, specifically tailored to participants’ needs, covering a variety of topics:
• “Top Tips for Great Screencasts” (Jo Gakonga, University of Warwick, UK)
• “Intensive EFL Training: 21-Day Speaking (Vlogging) Challenge” (Alla Krasulia, Sumy State University, Ukraine)
• “Task Based Learning in a Virtual Environment” ( M. Dulmin Upeke Wijerathne, British Council, Sri Lanka)
• “Motivational potential of technology in the English language classroom” (Larysa Andreiko, Sumy State University, Ukraine)
• “Using IT tools in projects and distance learning” (Liveworksheets, Storyjumper, Voki) (Victoriia Lomaka, School № 5, Sumy, Ukraine)
• “Online Assessment Tools and Strategies” (Wendy Finlayson, English Language Fellow Program of the U.S. Department of State, the USA)
• “Essentials of Online Teaching: Reading and Listening Skills” (Shaun Hicks, English Language Fellow Program of the U.S. Department of State, the USA)
