Launch of an online language testing advanced and professional course in accordance with NATO standard STANAG 6001 in the Language Testing and Research Centre of the Foreign Language Educatio

      According to the order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine as of 04.04.2017 №202 (amended) “On the organization and conduct of advanced training of servicemen, employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, civil servants of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, by decision of the Director of the Department of Military Education and Science Of Ukraine on November 16, 2020 the Language Testing and Research Centre of the Foreign Language Education and Research Center of Ivan Cherniakhovskyi National University of Defense of Ukraine has launched an online language testing advanced and professional course in accordance with NATO standard STANAG 6001 for the first time.

      The course was developed in accordance with the methodological materials of the NATO Bureau for International Language Co-ordination (BILC) and is conducted by specialists of the Language Testing              Research Center of the Foreign Language Education and Research Center exclusively in English.

      In the future, the participation of instructors and participants from partner countries is envisaged.

      The program of the five-day course includes lectures, discussions with experts, questions and answers, surveys of course participants, etc.

      Preparation for the course included the development of a textbook "A Course for Language Tester Training", the development of appropriate teaching materials and their upload on the distance learning platform.

      Participants of the course are scientific-pedagogical and scientific workers of the language training units of the National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi, Kharkiv National University of the Air Force named after Ivan Kozhedub, Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy, Military Academy of Odessa, Military University of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Zhytomyr Military Institute named after S.P. Korolyov, Department of Military Training, Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University.

       Students of the course improve their professional competence in the field of organization and methodology of foreign language testing.