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Valerii Bohdan
Position
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Teaching Methods
Е-mail
valeriy.bogdan@gmail.com / vv_bogdan@bdpu.org.ua
Awards
- Certificate of Merit from the Rector of the Academy of Management and Information Technologies “ARIU” (1997);
- Certificate of Merit from Zaporizhzhia National Technical University (2009);
- Certificate of Merit from Administration of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (2011);
- Certificate of Honour from Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council (2006);
- Certificate of Honour from the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine (2012);
- Badge of Honour ‘Distinguished Educator of Ukraine’ from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2016).
Education
1984 − Dnipropetrovsk State University, programme subject area: ‘English Language and Literature’, qualification: philologist, lecturer, interpreter.
Academic degrees and academic titles
2006 − PhD thesis, specialty 10.02.04 − Germanic languages. Thesis title: Syntactics, Semantics and Pragmatics of Adjoining Constructions and Compound Sentences with Subordinate Connection in Modern English.
2012 − Associate Professor at the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology.
Work experience
1983−1992 − English teacher at secondary schools No. 11, 15, 16 in Berdiansk.
1993−1995 − Interpreter/Translator, Senior Expert at Foreign Economic Relations Department at JSC Abrys.
1995−1996 − Assistant to the Head of City Executive Committee, Head of Foreign Economic Activity Department at Berdiansk City Executive Committee.
2000 − Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Management and Information Technologies "ARIU" in Berdiansk.
2002−2010 − Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages at ARIU.
2000−2003 − Head of Foreign Languages Department at ARIU.
2010 − Associate Professor in the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. 2012−2013 − Head of the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology at BSPU.
2017− present − Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Teaching Methods at BSPU.
Field of scientific interests
- Text linguistics;
- Мethods of improving English language teaching effectiveness.
Public activity
- Member of the jury for the student Olympiads in English.
Advanced training, internships for the last 5 years
- Berdyansk State Pedagogical University Certificate of Advanced Training No. AD083/2022 under the ArsDocendi advanced training programme for scientific and pedagogical workers dated August 5−12, 2022. 1 ECTS credit/30 hours. Topic: “Modern Interactive Teaching Methods in Higher Education”;
- Berdyansk State Pedagogical University Certificate of Advanced Training No. AD78/2023 under the ArsDocendi advanced training programme for scientific and pedagogical workers dated July 5−17, 2023. 1 ECTS credit/30 hours). Topic: “Scientometrics. First Steps”.
Disciplines
- English Languag;
- Business English;
- History of the English Language;
- Analytical Reading in English;
- English for Academic Communication.
Other, which additionally highlights the activity of the lecturer
Author of over 70 scientific, educational and methodological works, including 1 monograph, 7 individual teaching manuals, co-author of 1 teaching manual and 1 collective teaching manual, and scientific articles.
Supervising prize-winning students:
- Daniil Khabarov, International Poetry and Literary Translation Contest ‘Alter Ego’,1st place in two nominations: a) literary translations from English; b) literary translations from German (Sumy State University, 2019);
- Alona Chernyshenko, 2nd place in the 4th International Student Translation Contest ‘Translation as a Means of Actualizing Ethnolinguistic World Pictures’ in the nomination ‘Best Translation of a Poetic Work from English into Ukrainian’ (National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, March 26, 2020);
- Diana Kononykhina, 1st place in the 1st round of the National competition of student research papers, BSPU, 2021;
- Vladyslava Hrynenko, 1st place in the competition for the best reading of Lina Kostenko’s poetry in English and German on World Poetry Day (Кropyvnytskyi, March 21, 2023);