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The 1st Young Researchers’ International Web Conference «Language, Culture, Communication the Expanding Intellectual Space» was held at the Faculty of Foreign Philology on March 20, 2019. Organized by Zaporizhzhia National University, Polonia University (Czestochowa, Poland) and Lviv State University of Life Safety, it was a successful startup of collaboration between ZNU, other Ukrainian and Polish Universities. The Conference welcomed over 60 participants from various regions of Ukraine:Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V. V. Dokuchaiev, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, among them.

On February 19, a new multimedia audience opened at the Faculty of Foreign Philology (2 academic building, audience 326) as part of the grant project “European Values in Literary Arts”.

Recently, representatives of the Department of Romance Philology and Translation have organized a videoconference with the University of Du Maine (France), which has been fruitfully cooperating with Zaporizhzhia National University for many years.

On February 1, 2019, on the initiative of professors of the English Philology Department, Ganna Prihodko and Tetyana Kozlova, the agreement was signed between Polonia University in Częstochowa (Poland) and Zaporizhzhia National University.

February 9 was a special day for professors, students and graduates of the Faculty of Foreign Philology as they came together to congratulate graduate students.

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 January 22, the first round of the competition for the best review on a work of art in a foreign language “FRESHview” was held on the Faculty of Foreign Philology of ZNU.

For the third consecutive year, master students of the Law Faculty of Zaporizhzhia National University have the opportunity to defend their qualification works in a foreign language. This year, 7 full-time and part-time students of specialties 081 “Law” and 262 “Law Enforcement” were able to demonstrate to the members of the examination commission, as well as to all those present, not only a high level of their professional training, but also English, in particular, professional.

On December 15, the international exam PTE (Pearson Test of English) took place on the basis of the Faculty of Foreign Philology of Zaporizhzhia National University, which is recognized by many countries of the world.  This test confirms the level of English. It is indefinite, that is, having made it once, a person forever testifies to his level of proficiency in a language.

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.