Qualifications

• associate professor, ISCED: 0100 Education; 0113 Teacher training
• 2012 PhD in Education, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine)
• 2004 Specialist (MA) in Teaching Foreign Languages and Literature, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine)

Teaching

English as a Foreign Language Teaching Methodology (undergraduate/postgraduate), General English (undergraduate), Teaching Practicum (postgraduate)

Research

Foreign language teaching methodology; technology enhanced learning; teaching practicum/school experience, ESL pre-service teacher training, teacher leadership

Selected Publications

1. Ponomarenko, O., Smelianska, V., Shcherba, N. & Shkola, I. (2024). Collaborative online university learning: challenges and perspectives. In K. Büyükkarcı & A. Önal (Eds.), The future of foreign language education: innovations in different modes of teaching, (pp. 129-150). ISRES Publishing.
2. Ponomarenko, O., Davydenko, O. & Taran, O. (2023). The way to the classroom: EFL pre-service teachers’ school experience. In K. Büyükkarcı & A. Önal (Eds.), Current studies in foreign language education, (pp. 258-279). ISRES Publishing.
3. Smelianska, V., Ponomarenko, O. & Plotnikov, Y. (2023). Enhancing teaching and learning in ELT methodology: a focus on effective session design. In K. Büyükkarcı & A. Önal (Eds.), Current studies in foreign language education, (pp. 59-75). ISRES Publishing.
4. Ponomarenko O., Taran О. (2023). English language teaching methodology. Module 1. Understanding learners and learning. Activity book: Psychological factors in language learning. Nizhyn: NMGSU. 89 p.
5. Taran, O., Davydenko, O., Karpenko, N., Larina, T., Lytvynenko, S., Ponomarenko, O., Slivka, V.,& Smelianska, V. (2023). Practical course of the English language: teaching manual for first-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages (part 2), 213. Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University.
6. Taran, O., Davydenko, O., Karpenko, N., Larina, T., Lytvynenko, S., Ponomarenko, O., Slivka, V. & Smelyanska, V. (2021). Practical course of the English language: teaching manual for first-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages (part 1), 220. Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University.
7. Taran, O. M., Karpenko, N. M., Larina, T. V., Ponomarenko, O. V., Slyvka, V. P., Smelianska, V. V., & Davidenko, O. V. (2019). First Year Grammar Companion: navch. posib. dlia studentiv I kursu f-tu in. mov. Nizhyn: NDU im. M. Hoholya, 173 p.
8. Davydenko, O., & Ponomarenko, O. (2018). Use of podcasting to develop listening skills in undergraduate students. ScienceRise: Pedagogical Education, 5 (25), 43–46. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2018.139395
9. Davydenko, O., & Ponomarenko, O. (2017). The use of Internet news in teaching reading to undergraduate students. ScienceRise: Pedagogical Education, 12 (20), 4–7. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4984.2017.118466
10. Moskalets, O. O., & Ponomarenko, O. V. (2015). Rozvytok motivatsii do vchennia inozemnykh mov u studentiv yak dzherelo profesiinoho rozvytku vchytacha [Development of students' motivation to learn foreign languages as a source of teacher's professional development]. Visnyk CNPU (Seria: pedagigichni nauky) [Herald of CNPU (Series: Education Sciences)]. 131, 92 – 95.
11. Ponomarenko, O. (2012). Problema formuvannia liderskyh yakostei u pedagogichniy osviti SSA [The problem of developing leadership qualities in pedagogical education in the USA] [PhD dissertation, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University].

Other

Projects

• 2024. “Exploring and Enacting Holistic Language Pedagogies” project (Childhood Education International and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine)
• February – April 2024. Collaborative Online International Learning (the Hague University of Applied Sciences, Cormack Consultancy Group within the Twinning Initiative)
• 2016 – 2019. “New Generation School Teacher” project (British Council Ukraine)
• 2016. “English Language Retreat / GoGlobal Initiative” project (funded by the US Embassy in Ukraine)

Membership

• TESOL International Association
• Childhood Education International

Distinctions and Awards

• 2024 – Diploma of Appreciation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
• 2019 – Diploma of Merit of the Department of Education and Science of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration

Mobility

• study visit to Riga (Latvia, 2024)
• study visit to the University of Wolverhampton (Great Britain, 2023)

Professional Development