International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed every year on 11th February to recognise the importance of gender equality in the field of science.
Science is not limited just to one gender rather it is an opportunity for every human to learn and contribute to science. Wishing a very Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to all. Let us give our ladies all the chance they deserve to make the change in this world using science.

According to the results of the All-Ukrainian competition of students’ research works in 2022 Lobatiuk Maria, 4th year student (Mцм 804) Medical Institute, scientific supervisor – Kozachenko Y.S. (Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences) took the 3rd place in the field of "Educational, Pedagogical Sciences". Title - "Study." The results are presented: 1) in the article - Influence of Stress on the Educational Process of Students / Y.S. Kozachenko, M.E. Lobatiuk // Pedagogical sciences: theory, history, innovative technologies: scientific journal. - Sumy: Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko, 2021. - Issue 9-10. - 288-299. 2) participation and submission of abstracts to the All-Ukrainian conference of Linguistic Educational and Methodical Centre of Sumy State University "To make the world smarter and safer".
Congratulations to the winners!

Dear students, postgraduates, teachers!

We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the XVI-th all-Ukrainian Scientific
and Practical Conference “To Make the World Smarter and Safer”, 
which will be held on March 31, 2022, on the basis of the FL Department of Sumy State University.

Objectives of the conference:

• - developing students motivation to learn foreign languages;
• - developing research skills;
• - improving presentation abilities;
• - improving academic communication skills, both oral and written;
• - exchanging teaching/learning experiences.

Conference panels:

• High-tech and information technology advances.
• Engineering advancements.
• Innovation in medicine and modern life.
• Financial and economic changes of today.
• Intercultural communication as a tool of mutual understanding in the national diversity of the modern world, journalism and multimedia technologies.
• The importance of learning foreign languages in the modern world.
• Linguistic research of the present: challenges and perspectives.
• Maintaining a healthy environment for future generations.
• Postgraduate research.
• Extracurricular activities and life-long education in foreign languages teaching.

Get more details below: call for papers

It’s easy to get lost in the flurry of activity during Christmas time.
May you get chance to take in the beauty and true meaning of the season
and have a Merry Christmas.
Wishing you and your family health, happiness, peace and prosperity
this Christmas and in the coming New Year.

On completion of the training course for EFL teachers "GetSet for a Successful Career" the certificates were issued in English:

Type of in-service training: in-service training course for EFL teachers "GetSet for a Successful Career"
Form of training: online.

Total amount: 1 ECTS credit.

Training period: November 10, 2021 - December 3, 2021

Date of issue of the certificate: 07.12.2021

So, the EFL teacher professional development course “GetSet for Successful Career” is over. This course has been initiated in the framework of cooperation with the Islamic Azad University, which bonded about a hundred teachers from Ukrainian and Iranian universities. Professors of the Iranian university, the key presenters of the course, Dr. Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Dr. Seyed Reza Beh-Afari Parpinchy, with their sincere and open desire to share their knowledge, managed to unite the Ukrainian and Iranian academic cohorts, create a very special learning atmosphere and show the new strands of the valuable course content. For almost a month, the participants of the course have been joining each session, asking questions, and sharing their impressions.
This partnership experience with an Iranian university is new and very valuable for us, being an opportunity for us to acquire new knowledge and embrace the cultural component of teaching in Iranian universities.
Every ending is a new beginning, so we sincerely hope for further cooperation with interesting and already dear speakers in new projects, courses, academic and research activities.

The record of Dr. Beh-Afarin Parpinchi's webinar "Teacher’s Professional Development" is available on the link:
https://youtu.be/nSNDU6eUJ2M 

Dear colleagues, 

We are looking forward to seeing you at the “E-TOOL” symposium this coming Wednesday and Thursday at 1.30 pm on Zoom.

Nine inspirational speakers are going to share their experiences of using online tools in a number of ways in different contexts. Join in if you want to enrich your online classroom practices with new practical ideas and make your teaching style even more engaging!

You will learn about
- benefits and challenges of some online feedback tools and techniques;
- pitfalls of synchronous online instruction and the ways to overcome them;
- book writing projects conducted with the help of "Book.Creator";
- challenges of teaching online using limited technological resources;
- how to encourage language acquisition on-line with the use of aphoristic quotations;
- how effective the 21 day vlog challenge is for learning a language;
- developing students' soft skills by means of Google tools;
- how “E-TOOL” insights have been practically implemented at Sumy State University;
- mobile applications that can be used in learning English.

More information is available at https://qle.sumdu.edu.ua/index.php/2021-e-tool-a-follow-up-symposium 
If you haven’t registered yet, please follow the link https://forms.gle/tJZNPXAn4t6Lub766 
“E-TOOL” team

Participation in the project from the British Council for Iryna Liashenko, an Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, is both incomparably valuable in professional growth and honorable.
In August 2021, a global project of the British Council, "Future English," was launched in Ukraine with the opening of a new platform Online Teacher Community, which became an online center for communication between educators.
The virtual platform is an initiative of the British Council Ukraine and is a place where English teachers and educators can take advantage of online training. In particular, replenish your own e-portfolio, attend webinars and training courses for professional development.
In addition, the platform offers the opportunity to communicate with teachers from more than 15 countries, share experiences, and discuss issues that are universal for ELT, regardless of country.
The British Council in Ukraine has allocated funds to create a community for ESP teachers, “Ukraine ESP Community,” and launched a pilot project for Ukrainian universities to develop a training course on the platform and its discussion and communication on the forum platform. Through competitive selection, which Iryna Liashenko successfully passed, facilitators were selected for this group.
The facilitators of the platform help to communicate in forums and during online sessions on current issues of professional English and far beyond, through the implementation of various tasks of the modules and the and the study of new methods and technologies in teaching,
After the first month of working on this project on forums and live sessions, Iryna Liashenko held a live session with the Ukraine ESP Community group members on reflection on the learning outcomes of the Differentiated Instruction module.

How do EFL teachers spend their evenings? Of course, in networking discussions, professional issues. The fourth webinar of the GetSet for Successful Career course from Professor Abbasyan from Azad University in Iran, dedicated to psycholinguistics and its role in language acquisition.
The webinar highlighted the issues of acquiring language skills, the function of the brain in the formation of speech skills, the peculiarities of memory, approaches to psycholinguistics application in language learning.
The next webinar will be held on Friday, December 1, with Dr. Seyed Reza Beh-Afarin and will address the specifics of teacher professional development.