Galyna Tsapro

• PhD
• Head of English Language and Communication Department at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University

This thesis focuses on the study of gender strategic and tactic peculiarities of the English television interview discourse. The research outlines theoretical grounds of linguistic study of masculine / feminine interview discourse variation. Complex research methodology has been applied to define gender aspect of communicative strategies and tactic...

The adoption of online learning has significantly transformed educational practices, sparking extensive debate about its effectiveness, challenges, potential. Central to these discussions are the roles of educators and students, innovative strategies for maintaining engagement, and the integration of technology to meet diverse learning needs. Teach...

The paper focuses on the initial experience of a mixed-aged group of newly arrived Ukrainian children and their new Ukrainian teacher at a school in Germany. To assess the efficiency of the first four months of the transition period and to outline the recommendations for the further steps in teaching the Ukrainian asylum seekers a mixed method stud...

This article delves into the critical realm of teaching master students and, particularly, the communicative effectiveness embedded within the chosen course topics of «Communication Course for Master Students in Linguistics». The research is based on the questionnaire which elicits students’ evaluation of topics and text genres studied. The results...

Fake news has become an integral part of modern life. It represents a distinct genre within news discourse, characterized by manipulation and the dissemination of deceptive information through mass media. Fake news is primarily defined by elements of 'falsehood,' 'deceit,' and 'manipulation,' which underlie its close connection with both misinforma...

In the modern world of high technologies, real opportunities and open information,fake becomes an integral part of life and one of the consequences of human activity. The age of excessive information and quick accessibility to any facts and news is concurrently the time of deficiencies. A lot of information which is obtained is insufficient, mislea...

Fake news is a widespread element of the nowadays news websites. The research focuses on students’ abilities to detect fake news stories. 72 % of respondents successfully identified fake texts. The experiment proves that students concentrate on reading texts carefully, check their credibility, facts and pictures that accompany news texts. Students...

This paper is devoted to a corpus based contrastive analysis of the lemma WOMEN in “The Economist” articles published in 2001-2002 and 2020-2021 years. Media discourse is seen as an influential tool which, on the one hand, reflects what is going on in the world, but on the other, influences people’s views on different subjects whether they are poli...

The research is devoted to the contrastive corpus analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with PANDEMIC in the broadsheet ‘The Guardian’ and the tabloid ‘The Mirror’. The corpora have been processed with the help of Sketch Engine and the collocations with PANDEMIC have been analysed. The study mostly concentrates on the verbs with PANDEMIC...

The article is devoted to the study of the gastronomic discourse in the film “Julie and Julia”. It is characterized by the time and space categories. The first comprises time needed to fulfill tasks such as to cook, to prepare for events, to write blog entries, as well as the waiting time and time associated with gastronomic habits. The latter incl...

The research is devoted to the study of protagonists’ gender roles created by Danielle Steel in her book about five best friends. The corpus and discourse analyses have been applied to examine verbal characterization of main characters. Appearance, traits of character, relationships with others, moral values as well as communication styles have bee...

Creating a positive image is rather important for famous figures. Women and men create their images specifically. Agreeing to participate in television talk shows interviewees who are mostly celebrities or well-known politicians first of all take into consideration the fact that their particular image will be offered to viewers. According to G. Po...

The article presents practical teaching techniques of using movies as an efficient teaching material that can motivate the 4th year students to practise their communication skills (both speaking and writing). Using movies can be a useful tool to help students to improve their proficiency in English as well as it can give them an opportunity to stim...

The article aims at covering history of development of Gender Studies