The representatives of the Foreign languages department and the Language Centre of Sumy State University had a business trip to Lviv with the aim to get acquainted with the work of the similar departments, especially the Centre of English Academic Communication at Ivan Franko National University. Its head Tetiana Yakhontova is one of the leading specialists in this field, a professor, Doctor of Philology Sciences, the participant of the IREX and Fulbright programmes.

Tetiana gave information on the activity of her Centre, peculiarities of teaching written English communication, particularly analytical writing in academic and scientific fields, to masters, postgraduate students and specialists of diverse majors. In their turn, the head of the Foreign languages department Halyna Lytvynenko and the director of the Language Centre at Sumy State University Svitlana Zolotova shared the experience of organizing independent and extracurricular activity with the help of the Language Centre, cooperation with companies and enterprises of Sumy, using interactive methods of teaching English.

The cooperation between two centres was also considered, outlining the possible benefits for the students and instructors of Lviv and Sumy universities.

BUSINESS TRIP TO LVIV UNIVERSITIES