Research

There are 3 doctors of Science and 20 PhDs working and conducting their research at the Institute of Language of KFU

There are 10 post-graduate students and applicants, doctoral candidates pursuing the following majors:

13.00.01 – General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education

10.02.20 - Comparative - historical, typological and contrastive linguistics

Deputy director for research – Matushevskaya Galina Vasilyevna, PhD, Associate Professor

1 Pushkin St., office 204
Kazan 420008, Republic of Tatarstan
Tel.: +7 (843) 292 91 13

Main research directions:

• Comparative - historical, typological and contrastive linguistics (leading scholars: T. K. Ivanova, PhD, Associate Professor, E. Kh. Khabibullina Doctor of Philology, Professor, A. P. Petrov,  PhD, Associate Professor).
  
• General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education (leading scholars: F. L. Ratner, Doctor of Philology, Professor., I. N. Ainutdinova PhD, Associate Professor, O. I. Donetskaya, PhD, Associate Professor, G. V. Matushevskaya, PhD, Associate Professor, A. V. Fakhrutdinova, PhD, Associate Professor, I. Z. Shakhnina, PhD, Associate Professor, A. J. Jusoupova, PhD, Associate Professor).
• Modern Methods and Practices of Language Teaching (leading scholars: F. L. Ratner, Doctor of Philology, Professor, I. N. Ainutdinova, PhD, Associate Professor, O. I. Donetskaya, PhD, Associate Professor, G. V. Matushevskaia, PhD, Associate Professor).
• Foreign Language Teaching Information Technologies (leading scholars: I. N. Ainutdinova, PhD, Associate Professor., O. I. Donetskaya,  PhD, Associate Professor, V. S. Makarov, PhD, Associate Professor).
  
• Translation Theory (leading scholars: E. Kh. Khabibullina, Doctor of Philology, Professor, N. V. Maklakova, PhD, Associate Professor)
  
• Psycholinguistic Research (organization and structure of (bilingual) mental lexicon, experimental studies on semantic and phonological strata of mental lexicon based on computer software use) (leading scholar: E. M. Alekseeva, PhD, Associate Professor).
• Country Studies and Cross-cultural Communication (leading scholars: E. Kh. Khabiboullina Doctor of Philology, Prof., E. M. Alekseeva, PhD, Associate Professor).
  
• The International research and practice conference “Foreign Languages in modern world” has been annually conducted by the Institute of Language of KFU since 1998. The conference is followed by edited volume release.
  

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