Internships being one of the basic forms of faculty's advanced professional development, the Department provides its memebers with a chance to upgrade their skills in the following ways:
The faculty members of the Department, both young and experienced, continue to improve their skills through internships at different educational institutions of Kharkiv, other Ukrainian cities and abroad. At least five faculty members of the School of Foreign Languages undergo their advanced professional training every year under the guidance of prominent educators from the Department of English Language, Department of English Translation Theory and Practice, Department of English Philology and Department of German and French Languages. Moreover, among the Department's faculty members there are ones who have been interns at the University of Michigan (the USA) and in the city of Vichy (France); internships in the University College of St. Mark and St. John in Plymouth and Hilderstone (UK) has been completed three times.