Volgograd State University

Foreign languages for specific purpose Dept      

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Founded in 2001, The Department provides training in English and German as foreign language. The Department courses specifics is that the focus here is upon language and interaction skills within specific areas of professional activities, and that training follows the modular structure of three major blocks: general, business and professional communication.
The Department is also responsible for training students wishing to obtain an optional qualification of “Translator in professional communication areas”

Courses held by the department:
Introduction to Linguistics
Lexicology
Theoretical Grammar
Theory and practice of translation
Stylistics
Areal Studies
Dean's office  dean's office
Departments  departments
Students' life  students'life
Translation services  translation
Postgraduate studies  postgraduate
Contact us  contact us

Volgograd, Universitetskiy proezd 100, off. 4-08 B
+78442-405525
E-mail: pik@volsu.ru
The Department  coordinates and monitors translation traineeship of students

Head: prof. Astafurova Tatiana Nikolayevna, Doctor of Science

Students with propensity and aptitude to academic research work are welcome to join postgraduate studies in “Germanic languages” or “Theory and techniques of foreign language teaching”.

Key research areas are:
Linguistics: stylistic aspects of intercultural communication
Linguistics: stylistic aspects of various professional discourses
Linguistics: stylistic and genre specifics of text composition
Comparative and contrastive analysis of concepts in various cultures

The Department has developed and published a number of textbooks, several of them approved by the Ministry of education:

  
  
 

Astafurova T.N. Your Key to Successful Cooperation. – Volgograd, 1996.
Astafurova T.N. Business English: First Contacts, Presentations, Negotiations. – Volgograd, 1995.
Astafurova T.N. Business Law. – Volgograd, 1994.
Astafurova T.N. Precis of Lectures on History, Geography and Culture of Great Britain. – Volgograd, 2002.
Gaikova O.V. English Grammar through Economic Issues. – Volgograd, 2001.
Gaikova O.V. The Basics of Economics – Volgograd, 2001.
Gaikova O.V. Basic Economic Terminology  – Volgograd, 2002.
Karpova L.I. Political Aspects of International Relations. – Volgograd, 2002.
Karpova L.I. Economic Regions of Great Britain. – Volgograd, 2002.
Ladonina E.U. Get To Know American Economy. – Volgograd, 1998.
Larina H. G., Shchekoldina A.V. People and Their Problems in Modern Society. – Volgograd, 2003.
Kanigina H. A., Sadovnikova I.A. Praktikum der deutschen Sprache. – Volgograd, 2003.
Maletina O.A. Reading in Sociology. – Volgograd, 2002.
Maletina O.A. Current issues through listening. – Volgograd, 2002.
Sadovnikova I.A., Soina G.G. Wirtschaftsdeutsch. – Volgograd, 2004.
 
The Department makes an extensive use of original audio and video materials in the curriculum, with preference to those published in USA or United Kingdom.

Members of the Department has taken special courses in Business English at the British Council, and received certificates approving participation in the Presidential Program of advanced vocational training for management and administrative staff

Staff and academic research interests

prof. Astafurova T.N., Doctor of Science
linguistic and cultural specifics of business communication
linguistic and cognitive specifics of professional discourse
instructing intercultural communicative and translational competences
modular language training for non-linguistic professionals
techniques of using IT and multimedia in training translation and intercultural communcation

Alexandrova E.S.
typology of gender features and their actualization in communicative behavior

assistant prof. Atman O.V., Kandidat of Science
electoral discourse

assistant prof. Doudina I.A., Kandidat of Science
terminological nomenclature of new institutional economics

senior instructor Ivanova I.V.
techniques of teaching productive speech activities in foreign languages

instructor Igolkona G.V.
communicative competence development in professional communcation

instructor Kanygina E.A.
lexical semantics of movement verbs in German

senior instructor Karpova L.I.
original methods of teaching introductory communicative grammar

assistant prof. Ladonina E.U., Kandidat of Science
contrastive study of social, political and economic realities in English and Russian

senior instructor Larina E.G., Kandidat of Science
specifics of English talk-shows discourse

senior instructor Maletina O.A., Kandidat of Science
specifics of portrait description in belle-lettres discourse

senior instructor Potoldykova E.V., Kandidat of Science
linguistics, cultural and pragmatic aspects of phraseological neologisms in mass information discourse

instructor Panchenko O.V.
multicultural aspects of interactive competence development with students of Areal studies

instructor Sadovnikova I.A.
contrastive analysis of space categories in Russian and English
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senior instructor Skrynnikova I.V., Kandidat of Sciencs
linguistic and cultural specifics of space conceptualization in English

senior instructor Soina G.G.
Semantics and pragmatics of belle-lettres: “nature” conceptual space and “feeling of nature” category

assistant prof. Sytina N.A., Kandidat of Scince
Lexical and Semantic aspects of international vocabulary units

Instructor Timachev P.V.
Linguistic and cultural interference as communicative “noise” (English)

senior instructor Schekoldina A.V.
foreign language discussion skill development with students of International relations
 
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