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Traditionally, spring break is the time for professional development of Zaporizhzhia in-service teachers. Zaporizhzhia National University organized a professional development workshop “Distance foreign language teaching: online features” within the project Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE MultiEd (“Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration”). The professional seminar-practicum was organized by the Faculty of Foreign Philology in cooperation with Zaporizhzhia City Council’s municipal establishment “Centre of pedagogical professional development” and the Faculty of Journalism.

The autumn semester of this academic year at ZNU marked active work within the framework of the implementation of European of Erasmus + KA2 projects like the MultiEd / "Foreign Language Teacher Training Capacity Development as a Way to Ukraine’s Multilingual Education and European Integration". Within its action plan there has been done considerable amount of work so far, despite the unfavorable circumstances of the global coronavirus pandemic. Thus, in September-October, the interim results of the study of the state of multilingual education in ZNU were processed, which will soon be finalized in the report. The project partnership holds regular zoom meetings, where they discuss important issues of procuring the equipment, organizing study meetings and seminars, planning work for 2021.

On the first of February, the next listening training in English for applicants in 2019 was held on the basis of the Faculty of Foreign Philology.

On December 14 the second part of the “MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING ENGLISH” seminar was held in ZNU as part of the American English Laboratory project with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine. The coaches at this event were associate professors of the Theory and Practice Department of Translation from English Svitlana Zapolskykh and Oleksandra Holovko - participants and initiator of Faculty of Foreign Philology participation in an international grant project.