Olena Krekoten
Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages
General Information
Date and place of birth: October 16, 1966, village of Kucherivka, Hlukhiv District, Sumy Region.
Education
1983–1988 — Studied at the Faculty of French and English of Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.
Professional Experience
1988–1990 — Teacher of English and French, Secondary School (Levels I–III), village of Stepne, Yampil District, Sumy Region.
1990–2000 — Teacher of English and French, Secondary School (Levels I–III) No. 5, Shostka, Sumy Region.
Since 2002 — Lecturer (Senior Lecturer since 2010), Department of Foreign Languages, Sumy National Agrarian University.
Main courses taught: “Foreign Language,” “French,” “Second Foreign Language (for Specific Purposes).”
Research Work
Research area: use of elements of modern European technologies for teaching French in agrarian higher education institutions.
Grants: application submitted for an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module grant (2025).
Professional Development
- November 18 – December 18, 2023 — “Innovative Technologies for Teaching Foreign Languages in Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions,” A. S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University (Certificate PK No. 02125510/003207-23 dated 18.12.2023).
- January 7 – February 7, 2024 — International internship “Development of Online Courses for Teaching in Higher Education Institutions” (Prague, Czech Republic), Certificate No. 94.2024 dated 08.02.2024.
Additional Information
Member of the Association of Teachers of French of Ukraine since June 2019.
