Cherniak Oksana

OKSANA CHERNIAK

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor,

Head of the Foreign Languages and Translation Department,

Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University

EDUCATION

1989–1994 – Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, specialty “English and German", qualification "Teacher of English and German in high school" (diploma of specialist);

2005–2008 – PhD student, specialty 10.02.04 - Germanic languages;

2009 - defense of the candidate's dissertation "Structural-Semantic and Communicative-Pragmatic Peculiarities of Censure Utterances (A Study of English Fiction Discourse)" in the specialized academic council of Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (diploma of Candidate of Philological Sciences).

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

- February 1994 - October 1994 - teacher of English and German of school-gymnasium №21, Lutsk,

- October 1994 - July 2000 – Assistant of the Department of Foreign Languages of Natural and Sciences, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University,

- July 2000 - October 2005 – Assistant of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of International Relations, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University,

- October 2008 - August 2009 - Assistant of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of International Relations, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University,

- September 2009 - August 2010 - Senior Lecturer of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of International Relations, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University,

- September 2010 - present – Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages ​​and Translation Department , Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University,

- October 2010 – present - Associate Professor and Head of the Foreign Languages ​​and Translation Department , Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University,

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

• 2013 - Silver badge of Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University

• 2020 - Diploma of the Volyn Regional Council on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka National University.

INTERNSHIP

During 2021, advanced training during online trainings from LLC "Dinternal Education" on the following topics:

• EVI part "Language use": effective examination strategies and approaches to tasks.

• The only entrance exam in English for master's entrants: types of tasks and strategies for preparing students for the exam.

• EVI part "Reading": algorithm for working with multiple choice tasks.

• Classroom management in higher education: effective language learning with a minimum number of hours.

• Effective use of communicative exercises in modern authentic textbooks.

• Favorite music videos for learning English with pleasure.

• Modern tools for English teachers for quality online learning.

• Tools for quality classroom management: practical techniques and pedagogical techniques.

• Interactive online teacher's office as a tool for effective teaching of English offline and online. April-October 2018 (108 hours) - seminar "Distance Learning with Microsoft Office 365"

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

- Linguistic pragmatics.

- Communicative linguistics.

- Lexical semantics.

- Discourse Studies.