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