Chair of English Philology and Intercultural Communication

Head of the chair - Kormiltseva Alevtina Leonidovna, Ph.D.

Senior Lab Assistant - Minkina Kamilya Maratovna

The Chair of English Philology and Intercultural Communication was created in August 2016, but the history of its formation began much earlier.

In 1962, as a result of the division of the Chair of Foreign Languages ​ ​ into two independent teams at the institute (then it was called ESPI), the Chair of the English language began working. Its basis was made up of graduates of leading universities in the country. Around the first head T.A. Zaitseva, young people, full of strength, enthusiasm and creative aspirations rallied together. They were united by the idea of ​ ​ putting the English language training in Elabuga at a high professional level. After the departure of T.A. Zaitseva for a short time, the department was headed by R.A. Volkov and G.I. Alekseeva.    And in 1967 V.P. Myasnikov, who worked in this position for 17 years, became its head. This was the period of creation and improvement of the educational and methodological complex of the chair and strengthening of its material base.

In 1983, V.V. Ovsyannikov became the head of the department - a man who left a good memory and the results of a lot of work at the ESPI. During his years in charge, teachers of the department were actively engaged in scientific work, studied in graduate school, defend dissertations. It was at this time that the chair received its new name: the Chair of English philology. Renaming the department was not just a change of signboard. It was dictated by new tasks and the new content of its work.

At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, Russian society entered a new stage in its development, the main feature of which was the strengthening of the role of interaction between Russians and representatives of other states. The main obstacle to such interaction became intercultural differences. In this regard, faculties of the foreign languages throughout Russia faced a new task: increasing the role of the cultural component in foreign language teaching. This very task became the initial in education at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​ for another chair. In July 2006, the Chair of Fundamentals of Intercultural Communications was formed.

Having common tasks, both chairs worked closely with each other in the further history of the faculty, so in August 2016, in order to reorganize the university, the Academic Council decided to merge them. The Chair of English Philology and Intercultural Communication prepares bachelors in the areas of "Pedagogical Education" and "Linguistics", which meets the requirements of our time.

Currently, the department has at its disposal all the necessary conditions for ensuring a high-quality educational process. These are lingaphone rooms, a computer class, a library, a collection of video and audio materials.

Disciplines taught at the department

• Practice of oral and written speech
• Practical grammar
• Practical phonetics
• English Language Teaching Theory and Methodology
• Linguistics
• Ancient languages and cultures
• History of the English language
• Theoretical phonetics
• Lexicology
• Theoretical grammar
• Stylistics
• Linguistics and Country Studies
• Theory and practice of translation
• Comparative typology
• Foreign literature and literature of the country of study
• Analytical Reading Fundamentals
• Fundamentals of intercultural communication theory
• The Chinese language

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

Additional educational services

• Additional educational program "Translator in the field of professional communication"
• Courses for the English language teachers at the Institute of Additional Education

Departments working in the chair

• Educational and Methodological Council of the Chair
• Phonetic Laboratory
• English Language Office

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

The fund of the APIC department is constantly replenished with audio and video materials, feature films, teaching aids, scientific literature; an electronic library of copyright works of teachers of the chair is created.

Teachers of the department raise their qualifications in internships and courses which are conducted in leading universities of Russia and other states; study in graduate school; are engaged in major scientific libraries, which allow them to conduct their research work most effectively, as well as attract gifted students to it.

Topics of applied methodological research

• Problems of young teachers in schools of a new type
• Trilingval approach to the development of subject competence of future teachers of the language cycle
• Enlargement of didactic units in trilinguism
• Training in academic writing using the example of Tatar and English
• Preparation of 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 with a zoonym component in English and Russian
• Genre specifics of the political novel
• Topic related to translation problems, both theoretical and practical
• Comparative study of sustainable expressions of Russian and English: vocabulary-semantic and gender aspects
• Phraseology of modern English and Russian
• Professional languages
• Phraseological paradigm
• Translational erratology
• Features of non-direct speech in prose by M.I. Tsvetaeva
• The functional specifics of English punctuation and the methodological foundations of its study at the university and school
• International examination as a prerequisite for creating favorable conditions for international scientific exchange and a basis for fruitful cooperation with KFU partner universities around the world
• The formation of empathy among students of a pedagogical university in the process of teaching a foreign language (13.00.08 - theory and methodology of vocational education)
• Cultural analysis of ethnic literature and the work of immigrant writers (using the example of authors simultaneously associated with English and any other culture)
• Comparative analysis of terminology phrases containing a figurative reinterpretation in the semantic structure (based on the material of English and Russian)