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INNA AKHMAD

akxmad.inna@lll.kpi.ua
+38 044 204 81 99

INNA AKHMAD

Associate Professor

Professional activity

In 1995, she graduated from the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanova, received the specialty of teaching English language and literature.

Inna Akhma has been working at the Faculty of Linguistics since 1996. She is a member of the Faculty’s Academic Board.

In 2019, she successfully defended a thesis for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences (comparable to PhD).

Inna Akhmad works at the Department of ESP#1 of the Faculty of Linguistics, “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute teaches disciplines English as a Foreign Language, English for Specific Purposes to the students doing for their Bachelor’s and Master’s degree as well as to the postgraduates. She teaches students to write research papers on their specialism in English, to deliver speeches at international conferences and participate in competitions.

Inna Akhmad is a full member of the international associations of English language teachers, such as IATEFL-Ukraine, TESOL-Ukraine, UALTA, and Ukrainian Educational Research Association (UERA). She frequently attends training sessions and seminars, webinars, professional development courses.

She is a member of the editorial boards of the professional journal: “Advanced Linguistics” (category B) and is part of the department’s groups: expertise, review of textbook manuscripts, electronic teacher rating, student conferences and olympiads.

Author and co-author of about 100 scientific, educational and methodological works on the methodology of teaching English and philology in higher education.

Professional development

  • 2024 - Participation in the Conference on New Methods of Teaching, organized within the framework of the ENHANCE alliance with funding from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchanges NAWA, exchange of experience and participation in workshops, meeting with representatives of the Center for Languages and Communications of the Warsaw University of Technology (partner university)
  • 2024 - International internship English Language Teaching Centre в Університеті Шеффілду English in university teaching contexts
  • 2023 - International internship " Current Changes, Specific and Distinctive Features of the Higher Education System in the European Union Countries", University of Security Management in Kosice Slovakia
  • 2021 - Advanced training courses of the Academy of Digital Development
  • 2020 - Advanced training courses of UITO KPI "Using advanced Google services for educational activities"
  • 2020 - International internship "International Internship in Business Incubator ISMA University" Riga. Topic: "New Technologies and Innovation in Higher Education. Active Teaching and Learning"
  • 2019 – KROC University of Economics and Law
  • 2019 - NTUU "KPI", Educational and Methodological Complex "Institute of Postgraduate Education" Topic: "Creating presentations for various purposes"
  • 2016 - Advanced training courses of UITO KPI "Effective work with presentations based on Power Point"
  • 2009 – Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Research interests

Teaching foreign languages, business English, modern educational technologies, research into language systems, language interrelationships, corpus linguistics.

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