Department of Belarusian and Russian Languages
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 is headed by PhD, Associate Professor Guskaya Olga Nikolaevna.
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
 - Navoseltsova, I.I. Modern Belarusian language: practical. - Minsk: BSEU, 2018.
 - Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. The Belarusian language for economists: a manual. / V. M. Gubskaya – Minsk : BSEU, 2019.
 - Laputskaya, I. I. Russian as a foreign language. The practice of oral and written speech / I. I. Laputskaya. - Minsk: BSEU, 2020.
 - Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. The Belarusian language for economists : a textbook / V. M. Gubskaya - Minsk : RIHS, 2020.
 - Russian as a foreign language : studies.- method. manual / S. G. Barbuk [et al.]; edited by S. G. Barbuk. - Minsk : BSEU, 2020.
 - Gubskaya, V. M., Shmatkova I. I. Russian language for economists: a textbook / V. M. Gubskaya. - Minsk: RIHS, 2020. (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.
 - 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).
 

 




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