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, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine)
Teaching
Foreign Language Teaching Methodology (undergraduate), General English (undergraduate), Teaching Practicum (undergraduate/postgraduate)
Research
Foreign language teaching methodology; technology enhanced learning; teaching practicum/school experience, ESL pre-service teacher training, teacher leadership
Selected Publications
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.
https://www.isres.org/the-way-to-the-classroom-efl-preservice-teachers-school-experience-439-s.html
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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
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
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.
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
- 2016 – 2019. “New Generation School Teacher” project (British Council Ukraine)
- 2016. “English Language Retreat / GoGlobal Initiative” project (funded by the US Embassy in Ukraine)
Distinctions and Awards
- 2019 – Certificate of honor of the Department of Education and Science of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration
Mobility
- study visit to the University of Wolverhampton (Great Britain, 2023)