On 16-19 September 2024, the lecturers of the department Anna Salamatina and Olga Lazareva took part in the XXIX International Seminar ‘German as a Foreign Language’, which was held at the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg (Magdeburg, Germany). This year’s seminar was devoted to the development of audio materials using artificial intelligence (AI).The keynote speaker, a doctoral student at the Institute of German as a Foreign Language from the University of Munich, focused on the use of AI to develop students’ Future Skills. The workshop participants tested the possibilities of using various AI applications to create listening tasks, developed methods for their application, and created examples of tasks for different levels of language proficiency.
The cooperation agreement with the University of Magdeburg Language Centre has been extended until 2027.