On April 1 2019, UALTA president Olga Kvasova participated in IATEFL Associates Day within 53d IATEFL Conference in Liverpool. Read more: https://conference.iatefl.org/2019/index_postconf.html https://blog.iatefl.org/2019/06/iatefl-associates-day-2019-a-true-example-of-synergy/
CRELLA Spring Research Seminar
On March 27 2019, UALTA members Olga Kvasova, Tamara Kavytska, Viktoriia Osidak and Andrej Kawicki participated in CRELLA Spring Research Seminar conducted at Putteridge Bury Campus of University of Bedfordshire. The slides of Olga Kvasova’s presentation are here. The programme of the seminar and slides of presentations can be found […]
Two UALTA workshops
On November 25, two UALTA workshops were done within the conference hosted by M. Kotsiubynskyi Teacher Training University of Vinnytsia. The workshops were conducted by Dr. Olga Kvasova, Dr. Tamara Kavytska and Viktoriia Drobotun. The slides of the presentations are here. Assessing Oral Production Reading into writing
Workshop “Building Assessment Skills of Ukrainian ESP Teachers”
October 10-12, Sumy State University hosted a 3-day Workshop “Building Assessment Skills of Ukrainian ESP Teachers” partly funded by EALTA. Day 1. The Symposium presented an exchange of ideas and practical experiences of participants from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia. See the slides here. Kharkiv Zaporizhzhya Kryvyi Rih […]
Testing grammar workshop
On September 26, 2018, following an invitation from the Department for FL Teaching Methodology of M. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University of Kyiv, a workshop TESTING GRAMMAR: WHY, WHAT and HOW was conducted in DNPU by UALTA President Dr. Olga Kvasova. The work was motivating, and it was decided that further […]
15th Annual EALTA conference
On May 24-26 2018, UALTA President Olga Kvasova participated in 15th Annual EALTA conference hosted by University of Ruhr, Bochum, Germany. Within the work of CLBA (Classroom based assessment) SIG she made a presentation 3-D tool to Assess Intercultural Competence in University Classroom prepared by herself and Yuliia Trykashna. Please […]
Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Enhancement
On May 12, 2018 the University of Cyprus hosted the Final conference of Erasmus+ TALE project (Teachers’ Assessment Literacy Enhancement). The project team presented the eight on-line courses for teachers. The courses are free, and anyone can take them following the link. You can also download the TALE Handbook in […]
Assessment For More Effective Foreign Language Learning
On 25-27 April, 2018, Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv hosted a conference ASSESSMENT FOR MORE EFFECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING which was jointly organized by the Department for Methodology of Teaching Ukrainian and Foreign Languages and Literatures (Institute of Philology), Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA), (University […]
English Language Assessment in Higher Education: Improving practice
121 UALTA members participated in ‘English Language Assessment in Higher Education‘ online conference held by the British Council on 28 November. Two of the four panelists were Dr. Olga Kvasova (UALTA President) and Dr. Oleksandr Tomchakovskyi. If you wish to see the recording of the conference, please follow this link: http://bit.ly/2Awj80F
Quality Language Education in the Globalised World: Tendencies, Challenges, Prospects
On November 23-24, 2017 a conference Quality Language Education in the Globalised World: Tendencies, Challenges, Prospects was held at Sumy State University, with the UALTA expert member Dr. Liudmyla Hnapovska being the person in charge of major organizational issues and publishing a book of Proceedings. UALTA, who was one of […]