Effective cooperation of the department with the graduating departments of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and related departments of other educational institutions. Every spring student scientific conferences are conducted, where students present their reports on scientific topics in English. There are also interdisciplinary competitions in English, physics and mathematics.
The process of English learning is closely linked to the nature of students’ future careers and, in line with the European guidelines for language education developed by the Council of Europe, we develop the communicative competences in a foreign language at the level of the independent user. Multimedia technologies and interactive strategies implemented by our teachers and communicative techniques help the students to achieve the achievement of B2 language proficiency, which is the demand of a bachelor’s degree standard.
Improving the quality of teaching and modernizing the scientific and methodological support of the disciplines taught, based on the competence approach and credit-module principle in accordance with national and international standards of teaching quality, contribute to improve the professional development of our department. Teachers of the department participate in methodological and research groups, hold conferences to share experiences, help young teachers in organizing the educational process, and organize seminars on the latest methods and technologies of teaching English. The teachers of the department take part in conferences and seminars, introduce new teaching methods, cooperate with other universities on recent development in language training. The employees of the department monitor changes and trends in the teaching of foreign languages and their practical use, which results they publish as scientific and methodological articles in professional journals included in scientometrics databases.