English Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication Department

• Head – Dulalaeva Irina Yulievna, senior lecturer 

• Senior Assistant – Tereshechkina Elvira Alexandrovna

The department of English philology and cross-cultural communication was established in August 2016, though its history began in 1962.

The department trains bachelors in the directions “Teacher training” (profile “English and German languages”) and “Linguistics” (profiles “English and German languages” and “English and Chinese languages”).

There are all necessary conditions to ensure an efficient educational process: language labs, a computer class, a library, a collection of video and audio materials.

Subjects

• Practice of speaking and writing
• Practical grammar
• Practical phonetics
• Theory and methods of teaching English
• Linguistics
• Ancient languages and cultures
• History of English
• Theoretical phonetics
• Lexicology
• Theoretical grammar
• Stylistics
• Linguistic and Area Studies
• Theory and practice of translation
• Comparative typology
• Foreign literature and literature of the country of the studied language
• Basics of analytical reading
• Fundamentals of the theory of intercultural communications
• Chinese

Research area: "The study of cognitive-communicative, functional-semantic, linguistic and cultural, methodological aspects of the English language"

Additional Training Programmes

• "Translator in the field of professional communication"

• Teacher Advanced Training Course at the Centre for Advanced Training, Retraining and Further Education

The main task of the department is to ensure a high level of teaching English using both traditional, classical methods and techniques, and innovative technologies.

The fund of the department is constantly updated with audio and video materials, feature films, teaching aids, scientific literature; an electronic library of author works of teachers of the department is being created.

Teachers of the department improve their qualification at internships and courses at leading universities in Russia and other countries, study at postgraduate school, work in the largest scientific libraries, which allows them conduct research work to most effectively, as well as to involve gifted students in it.

Topics of research

• Problems of young teachers in new type schools
• Trilingual approach to the formation of subject competence of future language cycle teachers
• Enlargement of didactic units under trilingualism conditions
• Teaching academic writing on the example of Tatar and English
• Preparing the future teacher for the implementation of the valeological component in the structure of a foreign language lesson in primary school
• Cognitive-discursive study of paremiological units in English and Russian
• Genre specificity of the political novel
• Translation problems, both theoretical and practical
• Comparative study of the stable expressions of the Russian and English languages: lexical-semantic and gender aspects
• Phraseology of modern English and Russian languages
• Professional languages
• Phraseological paradigm
• Translational erratology
• Features of improperly direct speech in M.I. Tsvetaeva's prose
• Functional specificity of English punctuation and methodological foundations of its study in the university and school
• International exam as a prerequisite for creating favorable conditions for international scientific exchange and the basis for fruitful cooperation with KFU partner universities around the world
• Formation of empathy among students of a pedagogical university in the process of learning a foreign language (13.00.08 - theory and methodology of vocational education)
• Culturological analysis of ethnic literature and the work of immigrant writers (by the example of authors who are simultaneously associated with English-speaking and some other culture)
• Comparative analysis of terminological phrases containing figurative rethinking in the semantic structure (on the material of the English and Russian languages)