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Shvachko Svitlana

Academician of the Ukrainian Higher School Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Germanic Philology

 

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Member of the specialized Scientific Councils in Kharkiv State University, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, member of the editorial boards (The Visnyk of Sumy State Univeristy, Kharkiv National University, Kyiv National Linguistic University, European University)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education:

1956 – graduation from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Horlivka.

Defended theses:

  • PhD thesis: "Evolution and functioning of measure and weight words in the English language" (1971);
  • Doctoral thesis: "English numerals and their states in the lexico-semantic field of quantity" (1982).

Professional career

  • 1957-1974 – lecturer, the Department of English Language, Horlivka Pedagogical Institute;
  • 1975-1988 – lecturer, the Department of English Language, Sumy Pedagogical Institute;
  • 1990-1995 – Head of the Department of English Language, Sumy Pedagogical Institute;
  • 1995-2000 – Head of the Translation Department of Sumy State University;
  • 2000-2008 – senior lecturer, the Department of Translation Theory and Practice of Sumy State University;
  • 2008-2015 – Head of the Department of Translation Theory and Practice of Sumy State University. Professor Shvachko S.O. headed this department till 2015.
  • Now she is Professor at the Department of Germanic Philology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Theory of translation;
  • Stylistics of the English language;
  • Special course: Linquoculturology of Great Britain and the USA;
  • Special course: Fundamentals of text linguistic theory and communication;
  • Translation teaching methods, foreign language teaching methods, psycholinguistics, translation studies;
  • The category of quantity in distant languages,
  • Typological aspects;
  • Category of texts:
  • Metalanguage of translation;
  • Integration of the verbal and  body language in translation;
  • The naive and scientific picture of the language.

Svitlana Shvachko has supervised 12 PhD theses and has over 470 scientific, educational and methodological publications.

 

Membership:

  • Ukrainian Association of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics;
  • Ukrainischer Deutschlehrer- und Germanistenverband;
  • Thesis Committee for defending PhD theses (Public Registration Number 01114010009) at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University);
  • Academic Board of the School of Foreign Philology and Social Communications, Sumy State University;
  • Editorial Board of professional scientific journals, (Philological Tractates of Sumy State University);
  • Organizing Committee of the annual Ukrainian and international conferences held at the School of Foreign Languages, Sumy State University;
  • Head of the Annual Ukrainian Students’ Scientific Conference "Translation Innovations" and the Editor-in-Chief of the compendium of abstracts of the reports presented there.

Awards:

  • Honored Educator of Ukraine, 2005;
  • The title of «Woman of the Year» of American Bibliographic Institute, 2005;
  • Diploma of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, 2008;
  • Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2010;
  • Silver Diploma  of Open European-Asian Research Analytical Championship in London, 2014;
  • Diploma Sophist of National Research Analytical Championship in London, 2014;
  • Bronze Diploma of National Research Analytical Championship of Ukraine, 2015.

Teaching:

  • Methodology of training future translator/interpreters;
  • Scientific research methods in the fields of translation methodology and foreign language teaching;
  • Translation studies;
  • Translation of English-language patterns into Ukrainian;
  • Translation and interpreting practice;
  • Stylistics of the English language;
  • English oral and written communication practice.

Training:

S.O. Shvachko trained in the United Kingdom and the USA. She is an honorary member of the Theodore Roosevelt School (San Antonio, Texas). She was nominated twice (by American Bibliographic Institute) as the Woman of the Year.

In 2012, she had an internship at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

 

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS:

Monographs:

Shvachko S.O Radiance of forgotten words. Sumy: Sumy State University, 2012. 107 p. URL: http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30178.

Shvachko S.O The epidigmatic modus of quantitative English units. Palmarium Academic Publishing, 2014. 74 p. URL: http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/37310.

Shvachko S.O Teaching to study translation. Sumy: Sumy State University, 2015. 215 p. URL: http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/42327.

 

Co-authored monographs:

Shvachko S.A. Linguistic and cognitive aspects of the problem NOTHING vs SOMETHING. Modern Linguistics and the Study of Mentality in the Twenty-First Century: collective monograph. Kyiv: Publishing House of D. Burago, 2014. Series "Concept and lingual worlds", Issue 5. P. 349-364. URL: http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/34461.

Recent scientific works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svitlana_Oleksiivna_Shvachko

 

Contact Information

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