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October 30 famous Ukrainian scientist, D.Sc. in Philology, professor Ivan Bekhta was held a lecture on "Text and Discourse" for students of 4th-5th years of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of ZNU. Lectures, conducted in English, was organized at a high scientific level, have interactive and interdisciplinary character allowing students to understand the current concepts of text and discourse.

The teaching staff of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of ZNU has always attached great importance to vocational activities and cooperation with teachers of educational institutions of secondary education. Thus, a form of permanent cooperation of representatives of this Faculty from the schools of the city and region are teaching workshops for teachers of foreign languages of Zaporizhzhya. October 23 on the basis of the Faculty of Foreign Languages was held already the 19th similar workshop where with school teachers of English, French and German sharing innovative techniques and new materials that will be useful to them in preparing students to pass the relevant tests of External Independent Tests.

October 17-18 in Zaporizhzhya National University continues the VII International scientific conference "Foreign language and literature in the XXI century". This time to participate in the prestigious scientific meeting came 180 applications from England, Russia, France and Ukraine. The event was attended by both well-known scientists, linguists, and those who are taking the first steps in building a scientific career.

October 15, students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages with Head of the Department of Romance Philology Iryna Sharhai and Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs Oleksandr Manov visited Zaporizhzhya school №50, visited high school students of 10th-11th forms.

From October 4 Zaporizhzhia National University hosts an honorary research fellow of the Law Faculty, the University of Liverpool (Great Britain), Kiron Reid. He was invited by the administration of our university for teaching at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Foreign Languages to help implement the new Concept of learning foreign languages.

October 1 students of Faculty of Foreign Languages within the framework of Master's double degree diploma between Zaporizhzhya National University and the University of Maine (Le Mans, France) attended a lecture of lecturer of the Department of Teaching Methods of French as a Foreign Language Od Bretonye. Event was organized by the Faculty of Foreign Languages, including representatives of the Department of Romance Philology and Translation.

Student Government of Zaporizhzhya National University tries to encourage as many of their peers in intensive foreign languages study. Representatives not only of university Students' Council, but individual Faculties approach to the creative student community representatives argue that to study language can not only during classes, but together. Thus, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages resumed its work «Speaking club», which started its activities on the initiative of the students in the spring of the last year.

Last week ended assistant practice of Master students of the Faculty. Almost a month future graduates had the opportunity to try themselves in the role of teachers of English, German, Spanish or French and of academic groups curators.

This academic year in Zaporizhzhya National University on the initiative of the Rector Mykola Frolov began implementing a new program of learning foreign languages (English, French, German). Now students will study them from the first to the last year.

This year, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of ZNU has prepared and graduated 52 masters and 40 specialists of full-time studying and 82 - by correspondence.