Qualifications

associate professor, ISCED: 0114 Teacher training with subject specialization; 0231 Language acquisition

2004 PhD in Education, Academy of Pedagogics (Ukraine)

 1984 Specialist   in Teaching Foreign Languages, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine)

Teaching

Foreign Language Teaching Methodology (undergraduate), English for specific purposes (postgraduate)

Research

Foreign language teaching methodology, applied linguistics 

Selected Publications 

Ponomarenko, O., Davydenko, O., Taran, O. (2023).  The way to the classroom: EFL preservice teachers’ school experience https://www.isres.org/the-way-to-the-classroom-efl-preservice-teachers-school-experience-439-s.html

In K. Büyükkarcı & A. Önal (Eds.), Current studies in foreign language education, (pp. 258-279). ISRES Publishing. https://www.isres.org/current-studies-in-foreign-language-education-42-b.html 

Ponomarenko, O., Taran, O. (2023).  Metodyka vykladannia angliiskoi movy. Modul 1. Rozuminnia osvitniogo protsesu. Practycum: Psykhologichni factory u vyvchenni movy [EFL Teaching Methodology. Module 1. Understanding Learners and Learning. Unit: Psychological Factors in Language Learning] [NDU im. M.Hoholia].

Taran, O. (2021).  Psykholoho-pedahohichni umovy rozvytku navchalnoi avtonomii studentiv u protsesi vyvchennia inozemnoi movy [Psychological and Pedagogical Conditions for Learner Autonomy Development in the Process of Studying a Foreign Language] Research Notes. Series "Psychology and Pedagogy Research" (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University)  http://lib.ndu.edu.ua/dspace/handle/123456789/2365

Typova programa «Metodyka navchannia angliiskoi movy». Osvitnii stupin bakalavra. (2020). [Core Curriculum English Language teaching Methodology Bachelor’s Level]. IvanoFrankivsk: NAIR  

Taran, O., Davydenko, O., Karpenko, N., Larina, T., Lytvynenko, S., Ponomarenko, O., Slivka, V., Smelianska, V. (2022). Practical course of the English language: teaching manual for first-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, 173. Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University.

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.

Taran, O., Karpenko, N., Larina, T.,   Ponomarenko, O., Slivka, V., Smelianska, V.. Davydenko, O. (2019). First Year Grammar Companion : teaching manual for first-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages (part 2), 213. Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University.

Taran, O. (2013).  Refleksyvna model pidhotovky vchyteliv   inozemnoi movy yak shliakh udoskonalennia protsesu profesiinogo stanovlennia [Reflective model of foreign language teacher training as a way to improve the process of professional development]  Research Notes. Series "Psychology and Pedagogy Research" (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University)  http://lib.ndu.edu.ua/dspace/handle/123456789/536

Shkilnii uchitel novogo pokolinnia. Doproektne basove doslidzhennia (berezen2013-berezen2014) [New generation school teacher. Baseline(march, 2013 – march, 2014)], 60, Kyiv, Lenvit.

Other

Projects

• 2013 – 2019. “New Generation School Teacher” project (British Council Ukraine)

 Membership

• NGO “European Education and Science in Ukraine”   NGO EESU/AEDE

 Mobility

• study visit to the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE),   Norwich,  Great Britain,   2014.