Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguodidactics, Iryna Lyashenko, was invited to speak at the international online conference "Strategies for optimizing learning and assessment in teaching languages and literatures in modern conditions." The Taras Shevchenko Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology of KNU acted as the organizer of the conference, and Iryna spoke as an expert at the symposium on the topic "How to optimize teaching and assessment and ensure their quality in times of crisis."
Iryna shared the experience of Sumy State University in overcoming difficulties in teaching and assessment in times of crisis. After the symposium, parallel sessions were held, where teachers of Ukrainian universities discussed problematic areas of teaching and assessment. This included topics such as the role of Chat GPT as an assistant in foreign language teaching and assessment, optimizing the teaching and assessment of writing with the ZenGengo online platform, teaching independent listening online with assessment tasks and many others.
The conference also presented a new international project for teachers of Ukrainian universities regarding the use of CEFR/CV to disseminate the results of the ERASMUS+ international cooperation project. In addition, foreign speakers from Germany, Great Britain and the USA shared their opinions on the features of language skills assessment and the principles of CEFR/CV assessment.