Cross-Cultural Communications Department

Cross-Cultural Communications Department was founded in 2006 to satisfy the growing need for English speakers in the region.

The Department is in charge of the following courses:

• Practical Course of the English Language
• Practical Phonetics
• Cross-Cultural Communications
• English and American Literature
• Theory and Practice of Translation
• Lexicology
• Linguistics
• Teaching Methodology
• Onomastics.

The main task of the Department is to provide the high level of English teaching using both traditional methods and methodology and innovative technologies.

The Department owns a wide range of audio and video materials, manuals, textbooks, scientific literature. Work on the electronic library of teaching guides is underway.

Our primary research areas are:

• Intermedial Approach to Multicultural Competence of Foreign Language Teachers
• Linguistic Study of Texts
• Innovative Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching
• Comparative Research of Languages in Multicultural Environments
• Problems of the Theory and Practice of Translation.

The Department has a phonetic lab and a computer classroom.