Oleg İovenko

My name is Oleg Iovenko. I am originally from Russia but I live in Turkey teaching General and Business English and exam preparation classes.

I am an as-native English speaker with over thirty years of experience in teaching English and Russian as foreign languages, English for Specific Purposes to students of various university departments such as economics, mathematics, psychology and biology, Business English, Academic Writing, American Studies and Professionally Oriented Translation to all age groups on preschool to tertiary education levels as well as in doing TOEFL / IELTS / FCE / / TWE / Academic Writing preparatory courses as well as corporate classes in Russia, Turkey, Thailand, and China.

I am also a certified Cambridge Exam Suit Speaking Examiner. I hold an MA in TEFL and Linguistics. I have also dealt with syllabus design, curriculum, and materials development in EAP and ESP. I have been widely using the communicative approach combined with edutainament techniques involving songs, games, role-plays, jazz chants, SMARTBoard, and the Internet for more efficient interactive classrooms. In my teaching, I have been combining holistic and constructivist theories with communicative and student-centred approaches.

I have experience in managing educational institutions, and HR processes such as recruitment and selection: headhunting, conducting job interviews, orientation, organizing, and conducting teachers' training, assessment, and performance management.

I have also done a PhD research (not completed) and written articles on English as a Foreign / Second Language methodology and foreign language acquisition, edited and published English as a Foreign / Second Language / Business English / foreign language acquisition journals and manuals, prepared and facilitating teacher training courses, corporate training classes, conferences, and workshops, making educational TV and radio programs, creating web sites and so on.

I am a responsible, punctual, meticulous, but very sociable and flexible person with a great sense of humour and a good team player; I like challenges and changes. I like travelling, working out at the gym, doing yoga, watching sci-fi TV shows, singing karaoke and cooking (and eating good food, of course).