
Professor of the Department of Methodology of Teaching Ukrainian and Foreign Languages and Literatures
PhD in Philology, Professor
Contact information
E-mail: lbyrkun@ukr.net , l.byrkun@knu.ua
Research interests:
Teaching foreign languages, methods of teaching English, textbook development, development of curricula and teaching materials, pre-service training of school teachers and university teachers of English.
Theses defended:
Thesis for the degree of PhD in Philology: “Psycholinguistic Foundations of the Interaction of Listening and Writing (on the Material of the English Language)”, Kyiv University, 1982.
Thesis for the Master’s Degree of Education: “Syllabus Design for Adult Beginners at Ukrainian Universities”, University of Manchester, 1993.
Courses taught:
- Methodology of teaching English in secondary schools
- Methodology of teaching English as a foreign language
- Methodology of teaching English int higher education institutions
- Methodology of teaching foreign languages in higher education institutions
- Research Methodology in Language and Literature Teaching (for PhD students)
- Technologies of Language and Literature teaching in Secondary and Higher Education Institutions (for PhD students).
- Aspects of English (a course for bachelors)
- Academic and business English.
Post Graduate Students who defended their PhD theses:
- Asadchikh Oksana Vasilivna. The fundamental methodology of teaching Japanese oral monologues at the elementary level in higher educational institutions, 2007.
- Smovzhenko Lyudmila Hryhorivna. Methods of teaching polylogue communication to the first- year pupils at lessons of English, 2007.
- Ponomaryova V.A. Methods of developing rhythmic-intonation patterns of the English language in primary school, (2010)
- Zabolotna Maryna Oleksandrivna. Methods of teaching listening comprehension in English to pupils of high school, 2014.
- Tarasyuk Natalia Mykolaivna. Methods for developing English linguistic competence in future construction speecialists, 2018.
- Moiseinko Olena Oleksandrivna. Teaching English oral monologue to Philology majors, 1991
- Oliynyk Liudmyla Ivanivna. Developing English Polylogical Competence in Philology Majors , 1990.
- ORCID
- ID Was: KQU-2640-2024
- Google scholar: g1lt5AEAAAA