Faculty of Foreign Languages

Address: Room 314, Building 4, 14 Studencheskaya Street, 308007, Belgorod, Russia tel: +7 4722 301240 Dean � Alexey A. Kolesnikov candidate in philology, associate professor e-mail: Kolesnikov@bsu.edu.ru

News Institute of Pedagogy

• I. Educational activities
  • 1.1. List of curricula
  • 1.2. Faculty and staff
• II. Academia
  • 2.1. Scientific schools
  • 2.2. Leading scholars
  • 2.3. Key research results
• III. The Faculty's achievements in scholar, educational and methodological activities

I. Educational activities

1.1. List of curricula

• 44.03.05 Pedagogical education (bachelor programs in �Foreign languages (first and second)� (English/German, English/Spanish, German/English, French/English, English/Italian), �Foreign Language and economics�, �English Language and history�);
• 44.03.01 Pedagogical education (bachelor program in �Foreign language: English�);
• 44.04.01 Pedagogical education (master programs in �Linguocultural strategies in education�, �Linguodidactic activities of a multicultural individual�, �Education and foreign languages�).

1.2. Faculty and staff

There are 3 departments at the Faculty:

• the Department of the English Language and Teaching Methods
  head of the department N.A. Besedina, PhD in philology, professor.
  The department has 2 PhD, professors, 15 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 5 senior teachers, 2 assistants;
• the Department of the German and French Languages
  head of the department A.P. Sedykh, PhD in philology, professor.
  The department has 2 PhD, professor, 10 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 3 assistants;
• the Department of Foreign Languages
  head of the department E.A. Ogneva, PhD in philology, associate professor.
  The department has 1 PhD, professor, 9 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 3 senior teachers, 4 assistants.

II. Academia

2.1. Scientific schools

Research is conducted within the BSU �Multicultural identity and linguistic categorization� research project at the faculty (GRNTI codes 16.21.00; 13.07.00).

The project is headed by Arkady P. Sedykh, PhD in Philology, professor. Leading scholars are Alexander M. Amatov, PhD in Philology, professor of Department of the English Language and Teaching Methods, Elena A. Ogneva, PhD in Philology, head of the Department of Foreign Languages.

The department of Foreign Languages Develops �Modeling and interpretation of knowledge formats� research project (leading scholar E.A. Ogneva).

2.2. Leading scholars

The Department of the English Language and Teaching Methods:

• Natalya A. Besedina, PhD in Philology, professor; expertise: cognitive grammar, cognitive semantics, the author of the theory of morphological representation in language. Member of the Russian Association of Cognitive Linguists (RACL), Vice-President of RACL, expert of RACL;
• Alexander M. Amatov, PhD in Philology, professor; expertise: language evolution, paradigmatic syntax, critical discourse analysis;
• Svetlana N. Stepanenko, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor; expertise: cognitive semantics. Member of RACL;
• Olga V. Fedotova, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor; expertise: cognitive and frame semantics. Member of RACL.

Department of the German and French Languages:

• Arkadiy P. Sedykh, PhD in Philology, professor; expertise: linguistic identity, semiotics, communication theory;
• Sofia A. Moiseeva, PhD in Philology, professor; expertise: cognitive linguistics, French literature;
• Tatiana N. Skokova, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor; expertise: grammar and stylistics of German;
• Larisa V. Voronina, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor; expertise: comparative typology, cognitive linguistics.
• Inna A. Koteneva, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor;
• Natalia B. Kudryavtseva, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor;
• Yuliya N. Melnikova, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor;
• Aleksei A. Kolesnikov, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor.

Department of Foreign Languages:

• Elena A. Ogneva, PhD in Philology, professor. Correspondent member of RANS, member of RACL
• Natalia V. Zimovets, candidate of sciences in Philology, associate professor; expertise: translation theory.
• Elena N. Musaelyan, candidate of sciences in Pedagogy, associate professor; expertise: language acquisition.

2.3. Key research results

Faculty teachers annually publish papers in the scientific and methodological journals from the list of HAC, RISC, Scopus, participate in grant competitions by RHF, RNF, Vladimir Potanin Foundation, organize conferences at various levels.

PhD, Professor N.A. Besedina developed a theory of morphological representation, provides a new explanation of the mechanism of formation of meaning in the process of speech generation.

Faculty teachers are involved in updating the content of foreign languages teaching technologies. Under �The multicultural identity and the problem of linguistic categorization� cognitive-communicative typology of linguistic identity, semiotic principles, mechanisms of linguistic categorization, models for the analysis of verbal interpretation of verbal complexes are developed. The project leader, professor A.P. Sedykh has published over 150 works, including 6 monographs and a Russian-French dictionary. He has 19 author�s certificates for registered databases. He is a guest professor at the Mogilev State University (Belarus) and the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France) where he regularly lectures and engaged in active research activities. He is the organizer, director and member of several scientific international conferences and workshops, both in our country and abroad (Belarus, France). Under his tutelage 5 candidate dissertations were defended.

Professor S.A. Moiseeva successfully directs the research work on cognitive and cultural linguistics, interpretation of texts, linguistic analysis of literary texts. She repeatedly acted as the official opponent at the doctoral and candidate. Under the tutelage of S.A. Moiseeva 8 candidate dissertations were defended. She is the organizer of the four scientific conferences at the faculty.leads a research under RHF grant.

The �Linguistic horizons� and �Experientia est optima magistra� International conferences are held annually at the Faculty.

III. The Faculty's achievements in scholar, educational and methodological activities

Faculty Pride is its alumni, including PhDs, Honored teachers and worker of education of the Russian Federation, school principals, heads of preschool educational institutions, winner of the best teachers contests. Faculty alumni successfully manage regional and municipal educational departments, work in municipal and regional administration in the management of education, culture and social protection.

Currently, the Faculty employs over 30 teachers who are its graduates.

Among the Faculty�s alumni are the Honored Teachers Galina I. Gavrilova, Marina V. Konovko, Lyudmila I. Sizikova.

Information was given by N.Tsybulya 27.11.2018

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