Oleh Bodnar

Oleh Bodnar

Oleh Bodnar, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Languages, PhD in Philology.

Research

– Research interests: methods of teaching ESP in higher education, comparative literature

– Number of scientific publications (Google Scholar): 10

Main scientific publications

  1. Bodnar O.I. Deformation of Personality under a Totalitarian System (based on George Orwell’s novel “1984”) / O.I. Bodnar // Anthropology of Literature: Communication, Language, Corporeality. Studia methodologica. – Issue 25. – Ternopil: V. Hnatiuk TNPU, 2008. – pp. 30–33.
  2. Bodnar O.I. Intertextuality of G. Orwell’s Novel “1984” / O.I. Bodnar // Volyn Philological: Text and Context. Intertextuality in the System of Artistic and Philosophical Thinking: Theoretical and Historical-Literary Dimensions: collection of scientific papers. – Issue 7. – Lutsk: Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, 2009. – pp. 29–34.
  3. Bodnar O.I. Inner Conflict of Personality: a Psychoanalytic Aspect (based on G. Orwell’s story “Shooting an Elephant”) / O.I. Bodnar // Studia methodologica. – Issue 28. – Ternopil: V. Hnatiuk TNPU, 2009. – pp. 138–140.
  4. Bodnar O.I. The Image of the City in the Poetic System of G. Orwell’s Novel “1984” / O.I. Bodnar // Current Issues of Slavic Philology. Series: Linguistics and Literary Studies. – Issue XXIII. – Part II. – Berdiansk: BSPU, 2010. – pp. 245–250.
  5. Bodnar O.I. The Evolution of G. Orwell’s Worldview / O.I. Bodnar // Bulletin of N.F. Katanov Khakass State University. – Series 5. Philology: Linguistics. Issue 10. Series 6. Philology: Literary Studies. Issue 5. – Abakan, 2010. – pp. 120–123.
  6. Bodnar O.I. Allegory as a Means of Depicting a Totalitarian Society (based on G. Orwell’s fable “Animal Farm”) / O.I. Bodnar // Modern Literary Studies. The Topos of the Animal as an Anthropological Mirror. Collection of scientific papers. – Issue 8. – Kyiv: KNLU Publishing Centre, 2011. – pp. 37–46.
  7. Bodnar O.I. Art versus Ideology as the Leading Idea of the Literary-Critical Works of M. Rudnytskyi and G. Orwell / O.I. Bodnar // Scientific Notes of Volodymyr Hnatiuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University. – Series: Literary Studies. – Issue 32. – Ternopil: TNPU, 2011. – pp. 228–232.
  8. Bodnar O.I. Features of the Use of Epithets to Depict a Totalitarian System (based on G. Orwell’s fable “Animal Farm”) / O.I. Bodnar // Modern Problems of Epithetology: collection of scientific papers. – Issue 1. – Kamianets-Podilskyi: Ivan Ohiienko Kamianets-Podilskyi National University, 2011. – pp. 72–80.

Teaching and methodological literature

  1. “English for Engineering”: methodological guidelines for developing business English skills / L.A. Dzhydzhora, Zh.V. Babiak, O.I. Bodnar, L.Y. Petryshyna. – Ternopil: TNTU Publishing House, 2016. – 112 p. http://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17824
  2. Bodnar O.I., Dzhydzhora L.A., Petryshyna L.Y., Babiak Zh.V. Textbook “English: English for 1st–2nd Year Students Majoring in Automobiles and Automotive Industry”. Ternopil Ivan Puluj NTU Publishing House, 2013. – 116 p.
  3. Bodnar O.I., Babiak Zh.V., Dzhydzhora L.A., Petryshyna L.Y. Texts for Additional Reading and Rendering (for mechanical engineering majors). Textbook for technical specialities. – Ternopil: TNTU, 2012. – 80 p.
  4. Babiak Zh.V., Bodnar O.I., Dzhydzhora L.A., Petryshyna L.Y. Textbook for 1st–2nd year students of technical specialities. Practical Tasks in English for Reading and Speaking. – Ternopil: Ivan Puluj TNTU Publishing House, 2013. – 72 p.
  5. Bodnar O.I. English: English textbook for 1st–2nd year students majoring in Lighting Engineering and Light Sources. – Ternopil: Ivan Puluj TNTU, 2013. – 100 p.
  6. Bodnar O.I. Methodological guidelines in English “Commercial Correspondence” for students of economic specialities / O.I. Bodnar. – Ternopil: Ivan Puluj TSTU

Courses

English for Professional Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, English for Professional and Business Purposes

Short course description (general characteristics, features, advantages):

Course “ESP (English for Specific Purposes)”.

The course enables students to acquire general professional communicative competence in English. Learning is carried out by integrating language skills and knowledge within a familiar general and situational context related to students’ academic and professional fields. Self-study is considered an integral part of the course, and the programme pays special attention to students’ independent work.

The “ESP” course programme takes into account current trends in language learning and teaching and is based on the following principles:

  • internationalism and plurilingualism
  • democracy and equal rights
  • novelty
  • transparency and flexibility
  • variability
  • integration

The course aims to develop everyday and professional communicative competence, regarded as language behaviour specific to academic and professional environments. Such behaviour requires linguistic competence (language skills and knowledge), as well as sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences necessary for study- and work-related tasks. Communicative competence is developed according to students’ learning ability, subject knowledge and previous experience, within a familiar situational context related to their studies and speciality.

The course enables students to:

  • find specific information related to the learning process or subject using a library catalogue, table of contents or index, reference books, dictionaries and the Internet
  • ask questions to obtain essential information related to their studies or speciality
  • predict information using “keys” such as headings, subheadings, the author’s name, etc.
  • communicate effectively in a professional environment;
  • develop communicative competence and speaking skills in engineering;
  • understand and assess diverse international sociocultural issues in order to act appropriately in various professional communicative situations.

Expected outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course, along with other professional skills, students are expected to be able to communicate in a foreign language in a familiar academic and general professional environment in order to:

  • discuss general academic and speciality-related issues to reach mutual understanding;
  • prepare public presentations on a range of general political, economic and cultural topics using appropriate verbal and non-verbal means of communication;
  • find new textual, graphic, audio and video information on general academic and professional issues in foreign-language materials (both printed and electronic) using appropriate search methods;
  • analyse information from foreign-language sources to obtain data needed for general academic and professional tasks;
  • write in a foreign language a range of documents required for participation in international academic events, student exchange programmes and employment

Competences provided:

After completing the course “ESP (English for Specific Purposes)” students will be able to understand key values, beliefs and behaviour in academic and professional environments; understand different corporate cultures in specific professional contexts and how they relate; apply intercultural understanding in direct oral and written communication in academic and professional settings; behave and respond appropriately in typical social, academic and professional situations of everyday life, and know the rules of interaction in such situations (recognising appropriate gestures, eye contact, the meaning of physical distance and body language in each situation).

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