Foreign Languages for Professional Purposes Department
Overview
Address: Poltava, Іvana Banka Street, 3, room 419-A
E-mail: kaf.inoz.mov@gmail.com
Phone: +38 099 35 43 441
History and Present
Foreign Languages for Professional Purposes Department was created in 2022 in connection with the internal reorganization of the structure and personnel of the faculty of foreign languages. Today, the department employs 1 doctor of philosophy in philology, 2 candidates of pedagogical sciences, 2 senior lectures, 1 lecture. Three lectures have the academic title of associate professor, one of whom has the title of Honorary Professor of State Institution «Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University».
The department prepares highly qualified specialist, whose level of professional competence meets world education standards. Special emphasis in the educational process is placed on in-depth professional and practical training of students, which is provided by passing pedagogical, industrial and scientific-industrial practice in secondary schools and educational institutions of I-IV levels of accreditation.
Considerable attention at the department is paid to improving the qualifications of lectures and their professional self-improvement.
Theoretical achievements of the department. The lectures of the department implement the latest methods and techniques in teaching foreign languages. The department has developed the necessary educational and methodological materials that support the educational process: curricula, work programs of curriculum disciplines, lecture texts, plans for practical classes, didactic support for independent work, course and qualification papers.
All materials of educational and methodical complexes in the taught disciplines are constantly updated taking into account the achievements of modern methodical science. In classes, lectures solve a wide range of tasks, choosing optimal forms and methods of learning foreign languages, which contribute to the development of cognitive activity of students of higher education.
The department is headed by Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Honorary Professor of State Institution «Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University» – Shpetna Svitlana Anatoliivna.
The main goal of the department’s activity is training of a qualified competitive specialist, capable of solving tasks and problems of a typical and innovative nature in the field of professional activity.
The main tasks of the department are formation of higher education graduates of professional competences and practical skills necessary for the performance of professional functions at a high level; improvement of abilities and skills to carry out effective communication between representatives of different cultures.
Strategic goals:
- increasing the scientific potential of the department;
- preservation and expansion of international cooperation of the department.
The department’s mission is training of socially responsible highly qualified specialists in accordance with the needs of the labor market in the conditions of European integration by using creative and innovative approaches to study and work.
Values that the department adhered to is professionalism and high qualification of lectures; innovation, student-centeredness, academic integrity, autonomy and freedom, individual approach, social, national and religious equality, humanism and tolerance, competitiveness of graduates.
Educational Activity
The department provides preparation of the educational component «Foreign language for professional purposes» for students of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education, and also «Fundamentals of intercultural communication», «Foreign language of professional communication», «Scientific communication in a foreign language», «Business foreign language» for educational programs of the second (master’s) level in educational and scientific institutes: social and humanitarian sciences; arts; pedagogy and psychology; technologies and trade; mathematics and information technologies; business and management; health care and sports; natural and agricultural sciences, philology and journalism.
Research Activity
The research work of the department is an integral part of the research work of the university and is aimed at the formation of the strategy of the department’s scientific activity in the field of linguistics, the study of modern language processes and phenomena, as well as the practical application of scientific achievements in educational activities.
In order to activate the research work of students, the academic staff of the department conducts scientific readings, presentations of scientific achievements and projects, and scientific and methodical seminars. The reports that received the highest rating are recommended for publication in university collections of scientific works of students and graduate students, and young scientists – for admission to postgraduate studies.
International Relations and Academic Mobility
The department carries out scientific relations with leading scientific centers and higher educational institutions of Ukraine and abroad: the Department of General Linguistics and Slavic Philology of Berdyan State University, with the Technological University of Lanzhou (PRC), the Department of Russian and French Languages of the West Bohemian University. Pilsen (Czech Republic), Pomeranian Academy (Poland), etc.
Department Academic Staff
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| Shpetna Svitlana Anatoliivna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Honorary Professor of State Institution «Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University» |
Serhieieva Viktoriia Yevhenivna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor |
Kirichenko Olha Mykolaivna, Senior Lecture |
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| Bilobrovska Kateryna Oleksandrivna, Doctor of Philosophy in Philology, Lecture |
Okunkova Liliia Oleksiivna, Senior Lecture |
Petrushkova Anastasiia Mykolaivna, Lecture |
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