Refresher Courses for School Teachers of English at Tomsk State University

This paper examines the reasons for the development of English for foreign language teachers' (EFL teachers) refresher courses at Tomsk State University. The emphasis is on some topical issues of the organization and content of training courses for EFL teachers to develop their language teaching strategies and assessment skills to evaluate students' written answers according to the required checking and assessment criteria of the Unified State Examination (USE) in English. The author describes the training procedures carried out at Tomsk State University and specifies the methodological support and efficiency of educational arrangements. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.