Svitlana Melnyk

Education and Career

1990 – got a diploma in the English Language and qualified as a teacher of the English Language, Kyiv State Teacher’s Training Institute of Foreign Languages;

1990-1993 – worked as a teacher of English at Kharkiv Secondary School № 127;

1993-2003 – worked as a Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor at Kharkiv Institute of Social Progress: English Oral and Written Speech Practice, Practical Course of English Phonetics, Stylistics of English, English Lexicology, Comparative Lexicology of the English and Ukrainian Languages, Discourse Analysis and Stylistics, was a scientific advisor of course and graduation papers;

2003-2006 – a postgraduate student of the Russian Language Department, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University;

2006-2018 –worked as a Lecturer, a Senior Lecturer of the English Oral and Written Speech Practice Department of the Foreign Philology Faculty of H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University: English Oral and Written Speech Practice for 1st-4th-year students,Theory and Practice of Translation for 4th-year students, was a scientific advisor of course and graduation papers;

2018 – present time –  appointed to the position of an Assistant Professor of the Foreign Languages Department of Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics

Part-time Jobs
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (English for Foreigners, English for Medical Students)

Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics (in-depth study of Professional English, Business Communication in English, Theory and Practice of Translation)

“European School of Correspondence Education”, Kharkiv (webinars on the English language according to the School syllabus)

Communal Higher Educational Institution “Kharkiv Academy of Continuing Education” (English Language)

Kharkiv Educational and Scientific institute of the State Higher Educational Institution “University of Banking” (Foreign Language (English), in-depth study of Professional English, Business Communication in English)

Educational activity

Teaches the following subjects: Foreign Language (English), Foreign Language for Workplace Communication, Business English

Researcher activities

Researcher interests: Linguistics; Methodology of teaching foreign languages

Scientific Advisor of scientific research works of students-members of the National Centre “Mala Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”

Member of the organizing committee for the organization and conduct of the 1st stage of the All-Ukrainian English Language Olympiad among students of  non-language higher education institutions.

International activity / participation in international projects

September 27-29, 2012 – participation in the international conference on Noise Radar Technologies NRT-2012 organized by the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems of the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IRE of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

International internship
University of Management, Varna (Bulgaria) 09-16 September 2019 – Certificate, 120 hours (4 ECTS credits)
Department of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University, Slupsk (Poland) 19 July – 2 August, 2021 – Certificate, 180 hours (6 ECTS credits)
International Certificates in English and German

CELTA, Certificate Number ccpf681717, Date of Issue 30/08/19 (200 hours)

Zeugnis zur Integrationsprüfung Sprachniveau А2 Zertifikats-Nr. INT A2-02317173 vom 26.04.2023, Graz, Österreich (240 Stunden)
Zeugnis zur Integrationsprüfung Sprachniveau B1 Zertifikats-Nr. ІNTB1-02686268 vom 09.02.2024, Graz, Österreich (240 Stunden)

Social activities

2013-2018 – supervised the summer organizational and educational pedagogical practice of 3rd-year students of the Foreign Philology Faculty of H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in language school camps .

Oxford Teachers Club member.

State Awards

2002, 2017 – was awarded certificates “For high professionalism, fruitful scientific and academic work”.

Publications and patents

More than 40 publications in scholarly journals and databases (including Web of Science) in addition to Course books, methodological recommendations, participation in Ukrainian and international conferences.