Ukrainian Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UALTA)

Ukrainian Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UALTA) is a voluntary, non-governmental organization aimed at bringing together all those involved and interested in teaching foreign languages (FL) – secondary and tertiary school teachers, PhD and Master students. The Association has an international status,

which suggests that its membership is open not only to Ukrainians but also to citizens of other countries.

The goal of the Association lies in the enhancement of its members’ competence in language testing and assessment (LTA) with the view of making FL learning/ learning more effective, conducting research into LTA and making the outcomes known to educators and scholars, promotion of LTA know-how and introducing it into teaching/testing practices across Ukraine.

The Association’s activities include: training events (workshops and master classes) conducted by acknowledged foreign and local experts in the field, these can be held both in Kyiv and other hosting institutions in the regions of the country (on request); conferences and round-table talks followed by publications of papers; winter/summer schools conducted by invited or local trainers; consultancy in constructing and validating test tasks/tests to be used in institutions of higher education; courses for researchers (PhD students) on preparing /administering and interpreting tests and questionnaires as methods of investigation in FLT methods; courses for secondary /tertiary school teachers on preparing learners for language examinations, etc

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Our website will be soon populated with various resources and useful links to those available in open access as well as our workshops for self study.

IELTS interview with President of ILTA