CV Form
Date: ____October 23, 2011________________
1.
Personal Details:
Teacher's name in Hebrew: ___‫ ___אוסטי ויטה‬In English: Osti Vita_______
Address:_10/17 Vitkin st., Rishon Le Zion 75289 I.D. Number: _321730160__
Telephone Number:052-7733932/077-2019396 E-mail Address: vita2007@gmail.com
Place of Birth: __Ukraine________ Date of Birth: ____August 27, 1969______
Marital Situation: __single________ Date of Aliyah: __December 8, 1999____
2.
Education
B.A.
Ismail State Teachers' Training Institution, Ukraine
1989
M.A.
Ismail State Teachers' Training Institution, Ukraine
1991
PhD
.
Name of University Department Year of Degree's Acceptance
Kyiv Linguistic State University, Ukraine
1999
Master's Thesis: Phraseological units in British newspapers _________________
Adviser's Name: _Dr. L.Dyachenko______________________
Doctorate's Thesis: Comprehension of predicative phraseological units in American
and British mass media texts and the methods of its teaching.
Adviser's Name: Prof. T.Eremenko________
3.
Scholarships and Prizes::
Sept.2004: Diploma of Excellence in Teaching, Hemdat Hadarom College of Education,
Netivot
4.
Organization of Scientific Conventions:
February 19, 2004 Assistance in organization of the joint study day of CONTACT and
the Mofet English Department Heads Forum Response to the challenge: Do English
teacher education programs make a difference in the quality of teaching and learning?
5.
Places of Work
2005-present: EAP teacher, Ashkelon Avademic College, Ashkelon
2002-present: EAP teacher, lecturer, English Department, Giv’at Washington College
2011-present: Open University, EAP instructor
2009-2011: on-line EAP teacher, Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv
2004-2011: EAP teacher, Achva Academic College (under the auspices of Ben-Gurion
University)
2002- 2010: lecturer, EAP teacher, English Department, Hemdat Hadarom College of
Education, Netivot
2001-2008: lecturer, English Department; EAP teacher, Achva College of Education
2000-2002: English teacher (1-12 grades, remedial teaching), “Nativ”, private center,
Beer- Yakov, Israel
1998-1999: lecturer, Department of Foreign languages and International Relations,
Slavic University, Kyiv, Ukraine
1997-1998: teacher trainer, Department of Foreign Languages, K.Ushinski South
Ukraine State Pedagogical University, Odessa, Ukraine
1992-1994: Teacher trainer, English Department, Ismail State Teachers’ Institute, Ismail,
Ukraine
6.
Other Professional experience (Positions in Public):
Professional Affiliations
2004: CONTACT. Association of EFL teacher educators in Israel
7.
Scientific Fields of Practice:
1. Methods of teaching students of teacher training colleges how to identify and comprehend
actualized predicative phraseological units in the mass media discourse
2. After-school centers of informal education in the Russian speaking community of Israel
3. Grammar teaching in advanced EAP level courses
8.
Additional Information:
2000-2001: Teaching Certificate in TEFL, Beit-Berl College,
2005-present: number of "gmulei ishtalmut' - 10
Courses taught
Regular Courses
1. English Grammar
3. Advanced English Grammar
5. Writing lab
7. Speaking in English
9. Writing in English (academic and creative)
11. Bibliography in English
13. Applied Linguistics
15. Literacy in TEFL
17. Debating in English
19. On-line EAP courses
2. Pedagogical English Grammar
4.English for Academic Purposes (all levels)
6.TEFL-2
8. Spelling in English
10. Material Development
12.Discourse Analysis
14. Assessment in TEFL
16. Textbook evaluation
18. English proficiency courses (for 1st,2nd and
3rd year students
Teacher Retraining (hasava) courses
1. EFL Assessment (a special course for retraining unemployed high-tech workers under the
auspices of the Ministry of Education, 2009), Hemdat Hadarom Teachers' College,
Netivot
2. Literacy (the same)
9.
List of Publications
Articles
1.
Actualization of English predicative phraseological units in newspaper texts. Ma’of uMa’aseh. Journal of Theory and Research. Sept.2004, pp. XVII-XXIV
2.
An Eclectic Multicultural Approach Developed by the Informal Education Centers for
Russian-speaking Children in Israel. Ma’of u-Ma’aseh. Journal of Theory and Research. Achva
College of Education. June 2002, p.51-69.
3.
Reflection. Conferences and Headaches! ETAI Forum, Israel, vol.XII, #2, spring 2001, p.45
4.
English phraseological units in a newspaper text. Philological issues, 2nd edition, Ismail State
Teachers’ Training Institute,1993.
5.
Communicative approach and phraseology in English teaching. Ukrainian Danube Region:
historical paradigms of existence. Transactions, 2nd edition. Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State
University, Ukraine,1997.
6.
Teaching phraseological units in English classes. Our School. All-Ukrainian pedagogical
journal, No.1, Jan.1998 .
7.
Methodic typology of the stylistic devices of the actualization of English predicative
phraseological units. Scientific Herald. Transactions. 4-5 ed.- K.Ushinski South Ukraine State
Pedagogical University,1998.
8.
On teaching predicative phraseological units. Science and Education. Journal of the
Scientific Center of Pedagogical Sciences Academy, Ukraine, No.102, Jan.-Feb., 1998.
9.
On a special course of English phraseology. Transactions. Social-Humanitarian sciences.
M.Dragomanov National Pedagogic University, Ukiraine,1998
10. Abstract and concrete notions in teaching English phraseology. Scientific Herald,
Transactions. 8-9 ed., K.Ushinski South State Pedagogical University, Ukraine, 1998.
11. Some issues of a special course on British and American press phraseology. Herald of Kyiv
Slavic University, 3 ed., Philology,1999.
Presentations at scientific conferences
February 9, 2011 “Grammar instruction and reading comprehension at Advanced 1 EAP level”.
Presentation at UTELI Conference, Tel-Aviv University
June 23-27, 2002 “Informal Education Centers for Russian-speaking Children in Israel”. Teacher
Education as a Social Mission: a Key to the Future. The Fourth International conference on
Teacher Education, Ministry of Education, Achva College of Education, The MOFET
Institute
June 21, 1996 “Predicative phraseological units in the language of modern newspaper texts.”
21st century English Language Teaching in Ukraine. International Conference. K.Ushinski
South Ukraine State Pedagogical University, International Renaissance Foundation, British
Council, American House, US Peace Corps, Ukraine
Abstracts presented at conferences
1.
“Grammar instruction and reading comprehension at Advanced 1 EAP level”. UTELI
Conference, Tel-Aviv University, 2011
2.
Alternative Educational Approaches: Informal Education in the Russian Speaking
Community of Israel.Teacher Education as a Social Mission: a Key to the Future. Abstracts of the
Fourth International conference on Teacher Education, 2004,v.2, p.425.
3.
On functions of phraseological units in newspaper texts (in a communicative-pragmatic
aspect). Problems of linguistic analysis, Ukraine,1993.
4.
Actualization of communicative phraseological units as expressive language means in a
newspaper text. Topical Issues of Modern Philology. Joint scientific conference proceedings. Part
II, Ismail State Teachers’ Institute, Ukraine,1995.
5.
Ethic education by means of phraseological units. Scientific pedagogical conference, Odessa,
Ukraine,1995.
6.
Predicative phraseological units in the language of modern newspaper texts. 21st century
English Language Teaching in Ukraine. Proceeding of the methodological conference. K.Ushinski
South Ukraine State Pedagogical University, International Renaissance Foundation, British
Council, American House, US Peace Corps, Ukraine, 1996.