For those who aspire to become a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature and a foreign language in a school, gymnasium, collegium, lyceum of European Ukraine; who will teach languages in vocational, sports, artistic and artistic educational institutions; who will become a bachelor and a master of educational sciences in the field of linguodidactics, since June 2016, as a result of the reorganization and renaming of the Department of Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics (created in 1991), a Department of Methods of Teaching Ukrainian and Foreign Languages and Literatures has been formed. The current head of the department is Doctor of Education, Professor V. Shovkovyi.
The staff of the department includes 24 lecturers – 4 DScs, 15 PhDs, 1 PhD in Philosophy, 4 Professors, 15 Associate Professors, 5 Assistant professors:
- Doctor of Education, Professor Viacheslav Shovkovyi;
- Doctor of Education, Professor Olesia Liubashenko;
- Doctor of Education, Professor Valentyna Chernysh (part-time);
- Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor Olha Bashkyrova;
- PhD in Philology, Professor Liudmyla Byrkun;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Valentyna Borshchovetska;
- PhD, Assistant Professor Olha Danyleiko;
- PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Olha Drahinda;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Tamara Kavytska;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Olga Kvasova;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Tetiana Kolodko;
- PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Mariia Lastovets;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Maryana Natsiuk;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Viktoriia Osidak;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Vira Ponomarova;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Nataliia Semian;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Liudmyla Smovzhenko;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Olena Tkachenko;
- PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Oleh Yanush;
- PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Halyna Yarova;
- Assistant Professor Viktoriia Drobotun;
- Assistant Professor Yuliia Lavrenchuk;
- Assistant Professor Liubov Marymonska;
- Assistant Professor Farida Khalili.
The staff of the department, together with colleagues of other departments, prepare Bachelor’s and Master’s students in the specialty “Secondary Education”. The department’s educational programs include: general and special courses on the methods of teaching Ukrainian and foreign languages in secondary and higher education, on English and Ukrainian for students of other specialties, on the theory and practice of translation for students specializing in Eastern philology, on communicative theory and strategies. Within the framework of the Agreement on Cooperation between the Institute of Philology and secondary educational establishments, educational and methodological seminars are held for students – future teachers in Ukrainian and foreign languages; and students successfully undergo pedagogical practice in the best secondary educational establishments in Kyiv. The department also offers a PhD program in Linguodidacts.
The department’s faculty members participate in the second (city) stage of the All-Ukrainian competition-defense of research works of students who are members of the Junior Academy of Sciences (English language section).
Academic activities and experimental research of the department are carried out in international projects and academic mobility programs Erasmus+, in particular with the participation of the All-Ukrainian Language Testing Association UALTA. The lecturers of the department conduct inter-university research with colleagues from the University of Bedfordshire and the University of Solent (UK), the University of Cyprus, Heidelberg Pedagogical University (Germany), Jaume II University (Spain). The results of research and methodological ideas are published in the professional journal Ars Linguodidacticae (The Art of Linguodidactics). The department holds an annual scientific and methodological seminar “Linguodidactics in the secondary school of Ukraine: integration of science and practice”.
The results of scientific research of the lecturers are highlighted in all-Ukrainian and international publications, textbooks, manuals, among the most significant we can name:
- Shovkovyi, V. (ed.) (2021). Methods of teaching foreign languages in higher education institutions: a collective monograph. Liv-print.
- Liubashenko, O., Draginda, O. (2024). Development of oral and written creative speech of students. The publishing and printing centre “Kyiv University”
- Kvasova, O. (2022). Workshops on Language Testing and Assessment. Lira Publishing.
- Shovkovyi, V. (2021). Methods of teaching classical languages in higher education institutions: a textbook. The publishing and printing centre “Kyiv University”
- Liubashenko, O., Kavytska, T., Sukhenko, O. (2018). Language teacher in international projects. Project activity, language training, teaching skills. Kyiv University Press.
- Kvasova, O. (2017). Going for degree: Professional English for Students of Linguistics. Logos.
At different times, the department has been staffed by:
- PhD in Philology, Professor Petro Bekh;
- Doctor of Philology, Professor Liudmyla Naumenko;
- Doctor of Education, Professor Larysa Ziaziun;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Tetiana Druzhchenko;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Nataliia Sorokina;
- PhD in Education, Assistant Professor Andrii Kravchenko;
- PhD in Education, Associate Professor Tamara Ivakhnenko;
- PhD in Philology, Assistant Professor Karyna Bahration;
- Assistant Professor Iryna Kostenko;
- Assistant Professor Karolina Budnikova.