Department of Belarusian and Russian Languages
Head of the department:
Gubskaya Olga Nikolaevna
Candidate of Philological Sciences,
Associate Professor
The department consists of 1 Doctor of Philology, 6 candidates of Philology, 6 teachers have the academic title of associate professor. The staff of the department is 14 teachers. Russian as a Foreign Language is represented by the department as a collective member of the Belarusian Public Association of Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language (BOOPRIAI).
The department carries out the educational process:
• with Belarusian first-year students of all faculties (full-time and part-time),
• with representatives of foreign countries - at the I and II stages of study.
Educational activities
Disciplines
The department offers a special curriculum of courses in Belarusian as a foreign language.
Disciplines of the department:
- Belarusian language (professional vocabulary)
- Business Russian Language
- Foreign language for special purposes
- Communicative grammar
- Culture and Art of the Republic of Belarus
- World Literature
- World Art
- Fundamentals of literary mastery and editing
- Fundamentals of translation
- Written translation (first foreign language)
- Practice of oral and written speech
- Workshop on the culture of speech communication (first foreign language)
- Practical grammar
- Practical phonetics
- Practical translation course
- Professionally oriented Russian language
- Rhetoric and fundamentals of business speech
- Russian as a foreign language – at the I and II levels of education,
- Russian as a foreign language. Professional vocabulary
- Russian language as a means of communication
- Russian as a means of professional communication
- Modern Russian language
- Stylistics
- Country Studies (first foreign language)
- Modern Belarusian language
- Theory of intercultural communication
- Theory Translation
- Third foreign language (Belarusian)
- Interpretation
The collection of electronic resources of the department contains more than 37 educational and methodological complexes in the disciplines of I and II degrees of study.
The educational work of the department is carried out in the following areas:
- upbringing national self-esteem and raising the linguistic and cultural level of Belarusian students;
- assistance to representatives of foreign countries - students of the preparatory department and university students - in adapting to new conditions of study and residence, attracting them to participate in socio-cultural and scientific-practical activities of the student community.
Research work
The main directions of the department's research are related to the methodology of teaching the Belarusian language in a professionally oriented aspect and Russian as a foreign language:
- certification levels of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language and their diagnostics;
- research and classification of scientific texts by specialty and means of their organization in the system of professionally oriented teaching of the Belarusian language and Russian as a foreign language;
- teaching foreign students and undergraduates of speech activity on the materials of cultural studies;
- innovative technologies of teaching Belarusian and Russian as a foreign language.
Educational and methodical publications prepared at the department in recent years:
Tikhonyuk, V.I., Cherkas, V.N. "Hello, Belarus!": an educational and methodological manual on country studies / Tikhonyuk V.I., Cherkas V.N. [et al.] – Minsk : BSEU, 2013
Barbuk, S.G. Russian as a foreign language. Sounds and intonation : an educational and methodological guide. – Minsk : Riga, 2015.
Gubskaya, O.N., Shmatkova, I.I. World Literature: textbook – Minsk : RIHS, 2016.
Laputskaya, I.I. Practical grammar of the Russian language. Morphology : educational and methodical manual for foreign students: in 2 hours – Minsk : BSEU, 2015 - 2016.
Navoseltsova, I.I. Modern Belarusian language: practical. - Minsk: BSEU, 2018. - 93 p.
Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. The Belarusian language for economists: a manual. / V. M. Gubskaya – Minsk : BSEU, 2019. - 135 p.
Laputskaya, I. I. Russian as a foreign language. The practice of oral and written speech / I. I. Laputskaya. - Minsk: BSEU, 2020. - 180 p.
Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. The Belarusian language for economists : a textbook / V. M. Gubskaya - Minsk : RIHS, 2020. - 132 p.
Russian as a foreign language : studies.- method. manual / S. G. Barbuk [et al.]; edited by S. G. Barbuk. - Minsk : BSEU, 2020. — 229 p.
Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. Russian language for economists: a textbook / V. M. Gubskaya. - Minsk: RIHS, 2020. - 132 p. (with the stamp of the Ministry of Education).
Laputskaya, I. I. Russian as a foreign language. The practice of oral and written speech : an educational and methodological guide for foreign students / I. I. Laputskaya. - Minsk : BSEU, 2020. – 180 p.
Gubskaya, O. N., Shmatkova I. I. World Literature / O. N. Gubskaya, I. I. Shmatkova : textbook. — Minsk : RIHS, 2021. - 260 p. (with the stamp of the Ministry of Education).
International relations dep.
e-mail : umoms@bseu.by
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-88-32,
International students office:
Tel.: (+375 17) 209-79-71