Cooperation with USA Peace Corps
In 2011 the agreement between USA Peace Corps in Ukraine and Lviv Polytechnic National University on cooperation within the Project of teaching English was concluded. According to the agreement following activities were realized:
- realization of the project “Teaching English as a foreign language” of USA Peace Corps in Ukraine;
- improvement of the qualitative level of teaching English and the studying achievements of students owing to volunteers of Peace Corps;
- aid in the creation of modern informational and methodological database for teaching English;
- improvement of the level of professional skills of the university teachers.
Results of cooperation. In accordance with the conditions of cooperation between the department of foreign languages and volunteers of Peace Corps Byron Williams and Glenn Anderson the following events were held:
- international training seminars “Development of Project Activity” for Peace Corps volunteers and their Ukrainian partners (22-23/03/2012) and “Project development and administration” (12-13/03/2013);
- application for the grant of USA Agency of International Development (2012);
- editing of teaching and methodological materials of the department and the handbook “English for Designers” (2012);
- weekly methodological workshops “Developing Effective Communication Skills” for teachers of department of foreign languages (2017);
- optional courses “English Speaking Club” for students of Lviv Polytechnic (2017-2018);
- weekly methodological workshops “Topic Conversational Skills for Teachers” for teachers of Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (2017);
- summer English speaking camps for teachers and students of Lviv Polytechnic at recreational camps “Polytechnic-2” in Slavske village and “Polytechnic-4” in Zozuli village (2016-2018).
Cooperation with British Council in Ukraine
Since 2014 the department of foreign languages has been taking part in the Project “English for Universities” according to the conditions of cooperation between British Council (International Organization of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on cultural relations and education), Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine and Lviv Polytechnic National University.
Results of cooperation:
- According to the recommendations of Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine together with the representatives of technical universities of Ukraine and experts of British Council, new unified syllabuses on English for professional purposes and English for academic purposes were developed and implemented into the teaching process;
- the cooperation between the university teachers of the department of foreign languages and other departments of Lviv Polytechnic that deliver professional courses in English was realized within the course “English as means of instruction”;
- students of Lviv Polytechnic are provided with studying and methodological materials on English of international publishing houses, namely Pearson, Longman, CUP supported by British Council;
- university teachers have improved their professional level attending workshops organized by British Council in Ukraine, namely ESP (English for specific purposes), EMI (English as means of instruction), EAP (English for academic purposes);
- the head of the department of foreign languages, prof. Mukan N.V. and coordinator of scientific and research work, assist. prof. Baibakova I.M. took part in the work of the Symposium for the university teachers of the departments of foreign language for professional purposes and delivered the
- presentation “Project of British Council in Ukraine “English for Universities: experience of Lviv Polytechnic””, Kyiv, 07/12/17 – 09/12/17;
- assist. prof. Zhorniak N.Ye. has delivered five 35-hour courses “English for Specific Purposes” as a tutor.
Cooperation with Pearson Education
In 2012, in accordance with the terms of cooperation the International scientific and methodological workshop “New role and tasks of university teacher of the English language in modern conditions” was held involving the international tutorDavi d Kato and assistant professors of the department of foreign languages Mukan N.V., Baibakova I.M. and Holoshchuk S.L.
In 2014 Pearson Longman Publishing House, Dinternal-Book has organized the workshop “English as a foreign language”, where among the participants were teachers from Great Britain, teachers and students of Lviv Polytechnic National University.Since 2015 to 2017 Testing Centre of Pearson Test of English (PTE) for passing the international exam on the General English aimed at assessment of the English language proficiency had been functioning under the guidance of assist. prof. Havryliuk M.V. at the department of foreign languages.
Cooperation within the International Project Erasmus+ “DocHub”
Since 2016 the department of foreign languages together with other departments of Lviv Polytechnic National University have been taking part in the fulfillment of the International Project Erasmus+ “DocHub” “Structuring of cooperation on postgraduate investigations, teaching of universal skills and academic writing at the regional level of Ukraine” under the guidance of doctor of economic sciences, prof. Oleksiv I.B. and in accordance with the partnership of University of Tampere, Finland. Terms of agreement validity: 15/10/2016 – 14/10/2019.
Results of cooperation
According to the conditions of cooperation the head of the department of foreign languages Mukan N.V. and assistant professor Baibakova I.M. completed the scientific internship at University of Tampere (Finland) (04/02/2017 – 11/02/2017). Department staff (the head of the department of foreign languages Mukan N.V., assistant professor Baibakova I.M., assistant professor Havryliuk M.V., lecturer Zinchuk I.V.) has prepared the syllabus of “DocHub – Advanced English for Academic Communication”. Mentioned department members also have attended workshop “Training in advanced academic writing course design including validated curricula of blended learning” (Ukraine, Mykolaiv, V.Sukhomlynskiy National University of Mykolaiv) and SWOT-Analysis of results of implementing syllabus “Academic Communication” in the teaching process of Lviv Polytechnic National University (Kyiv) in 2017- 2018.