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 Graduate School
of Modern English
English Philology Department
The department completes the course of senior students training in such majors as "Theory and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Culture", "Life Safety with Additional Major" and "Philology".
Head of the English Philology Department:
- Larisa Vladimirovna Topka, assistant professor, Doctor of Philology
The Teaching Staff:
- Svetlana Nikolaevna Plotnikova, professor
- Alla Aleksandrovna Karnaukhova, assistant professor
- Nina Vasil'evna Shiverskaya, assistant professor
- Tatyana Vladimirovna Zhuravleva, assistant professor
- Natalya Valer'evna Deryabina, assistant professor
- Natalya Nikolaevna Panchenko, assistant professor
- Galina Ivanovna Litvinova, senior teacher
- Olga Viktorovna Belozertseva, senior teacher
- Oksana Sergeevna Filatova, senior teacher
- Galina Ivanovna Litvinova, senior teacher
- Natalya Aleksandrovna Pomeshkina, senior teacher
- Svetlana Valer'evna Gerasimova, senior teacher
- Tatyana Ivanovna Bezdenezhnykh, senior teacher
- Elena Vladimirovna Solodkova, senior teacher
- Varvara Faridovna Koneva, teacher
The department is regularly staffed with native speakers. So in the academic year 2007-2008 through the intermediary of the British Council Oliver Geidt was invited for teaching English.
Educational Work
- The Practical Course in Communication Skills (3-5 year students).
- The Practical Course of the English Language (Safety of Living, 1-5 year students).
- Language Learning through Country Studies (Safety of Living).
Specialization Courses:
- Speech Strategies.
- Business English.
- An intensive course for linguists.
Research Work:
The teaching staff supervises graduation works and term papers on the following topics:
- Discourse analysis problems (prof. S. N. Plotnikova, ass.prof. N. N. Panchenko)
- English neology (ass. prof. N. V. Shiverskaya).
- Sociolinguistics (ass. prof. A. A. Karnauhova).
- Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the text (ass. prof. L. V. Topka).
- Proper names in the aspect of cross-cultural communication (ass. prof. N. V. Deryabina).
- National mental-lingual complexes in the light of linguoculturology: contrastive-comparative aspect (ass. prof. T. V. Zhuravleva).
The teaching staff elaborates the following complex topics:
- Discourse analysis.
- Cognitive semantics and pragmatics of language units at different levels.
Career Guidance
The teaching staff of the department are engaged into a large scale career guidance campaign in accordance with the model "Professions popular on the labour market" in order to improve the methods of work with the would-be students. These methods include lectures in schools assigned to the department not only in Irkutsk but in Tulun, Zheleznogorsk-Ilimskii, Usolie-Sibirskoye as well, guest counseling, carrying out tests in classes with profound study of languages. Every year the staff take part in the open day giving a talk to pupils and their parents to provide them with the necessary information about the Linguistic University. The festival organized by the Department and devoted to the culture of English-speaking countries has already become a tradition.The Department supports the following educational institutions:
- In the City of Irkutsk - secondary school N 14, secondary school N 26, lyceum N 47, gymnasia N 2.
- Gymnasia N 9 in Usolie-Sibirskoye.
- Gymnasia N 1 in Zheleznogorsk.
Department and Students
The staff participate in annual "St. Tatiana's Day" concerts for the students, organize "The Best Student" Contest, prepare and hold the graduation ceremony.
Every autumn the Ecology Conference is held which deals with the most pressing environmental issues.
The Department staff organize celebrations of holidays popular in English-speaking countries, among which there are Str. Valentine's Day, All Saints Day, etc.
"Share your English" Club has been functioning for three years.
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