Olga Kvasova and Tamara Kavytska, the Erasmus and ILTA grant pursuers and winners, and the leading echelon of UALTA, visited Sumy State University and granted two workshops full of absolutely fantastic in its professional content and value and filled to the brim with invaluable insights into concealed issues of writing in teaching English.
The workshop opened with Olga Kvasova’s presentation, which captured everyone’s attention with Promoting Accurate Assessment of Writing session, revealing the construct and specification ideas, comparing holistic and analytic rating scales, and engaging the listeners with the strategies on assessing the different types of texts and the strikingly descriptive steps in adopting or adapting or creating your own analytic scale.
Then the event unfolded with Tamara Kavytska’s presentation on reading into writing, which eventually revealed the deeper strands to explore this idea turning into Source-based/Integrated writing as a simultaneous process of constructing writing texts, having drowned the audience into this kind of new for most of ESP practitioners activity of transferring several and different-types texts into creative writing with witty interweaving the ideas, paraphrasing and spiraling the input into thought-through result in writing. The listeners were astonished by the types of tasks from the leading world universities and gratefully accepted the sustained formula from Tamara for teaching the students these arduous tasks.
Having said that, the atmosphere was stirring and upbeat, infectiously energetic and arousing. And what’s more, there should be mentioned that we all were fortunate to gather together in person, having a lavishly impressive coffee break and sunk into lively and long-awaited live communication just before imposing strong quarantine restrictions of the red zone.