The Department of Business English

The Department of Business English established in December 2003 due to the reorganization of the Department of Foreign Languages No. 1. The Department’s specific is that its academic-methodological and scholarly-research activities focus on the issues of business communication.

The Department currently employs 20 faculty members who teach English (as a first and second foreign language) at the School of International Economic Relations (SIER), School of International Business Communications (SIBC), and at the Higher School of Management and Business (HSMB), as well train graduate students of scholarly master’s program and practice oriented master’s program at the Institute of Master’s Programs (IMP).

The department is the successor to the Department of Theory and Practice of English Speech established in 2003.

The Chair of the department is Olga Rudkovskaya, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor.

Specialties

Student teaching in the department includes disciplines and aspects of the English language within the specialties studied at SIBC, SIER and HSMB.

Educational activities

Disciplines

Among the disciplines and aspects of English taught are Practical Phonetics, Practice of Oral and Written Speech, Communicative and Practical Grammar, Home Reading, Business English, Cultural Studies, Academic Reading, Writing and Speaking, Translation, Press, Business Correspondence, Business Communication, as well as Academic-methodological activity at FIER is coordinated by L.V. Bedritskaya, Deputy Department Chair; at FIBC – by L.N. Kleiner, at HSMB – by I.V. Kuzminova, and for part-time students – by O.N. Frantsuzova.

Research work

The Department instructors conduct scholarly research within the theme “Practice-oriented teaching of Business Communication”.

The Department’s main activities are scholarly and pedagogical development course packs and dictionaries, training computer programs, as well as participation in scholarly conferences. Below are textbooks and course packs published by the Department’s faculty members that are used as teaching materials at BSEU and other universities in Belarus and beyond:

  1. Bedritskaya, L.V., Glazkova, T.K.., Sidorenko, G.I., Solonovich, T.F. Practical Course of English for Students of Economics. Ed. by V.S. Slepovitch - Minsk: Экопреспертива, 2004.
  2. Bedritskaya, L.V., Vasilveskaya, Borisenko D.L. English for Business Studies. – Minsk, Тетралит, 2014.
  3. Slepovitch, V.S., Vashkevich, O.I., Mas. G.K. Academic Writing and Speaking Course Pack. Ed. by V.S. Slepovitch. – Minsk: Тетралит, 2012.
  4. Vasilevskaya L.I. Business Correspondence. – Minsk: «ИВЦ Минфина», 2004.
  5. Slepovitch, V.S. Translation Course (English – Russian). Textbook for students majoring in World Economics. 10th edition. - Minsk: ТетраСистемс, 2014. (http://litera.by/book2040.html)
  6. Slepovitch, V.S. Business English. 7th ed. - Minsk: ТетраСистемс, 2012.
  7. Slepovitch, V.S. Russian–English Translation Handbook. - Minsk: Тетралит, 2013.
  8. Slepovitch, V.S. Intercultural Communication Course Pack. - Minsk: БГЭУ, 2006.
  9. Slepovitch, V.S. Tranlsation (English-Russian) Textbook for students majoring in the Humanities. - Minsk: Тетралит, 2014.
  10. Bedritskaya, L.V., Vasilevskaya, L.I., Kuzar, D.G., Sinyapkina, I.V. English for economists: Учебное пособие. – Minsk: Народная асвета, 2018.

By the decision of the University Council, in 2016 at the Department there was established Center for Intercultural Business Communication (coordinator – T.N. Yakauchyts). The Center organizes meetings with representatives of business community, an inter-university Olympiad of Business English and annual student scholarly-practical conferences in English.

 

Contacts

Address:Partizanski Ave. 26, Bldg 3, Room 335A

Tel.:+375 17 209 88 57

Email:inyaz1@bseu.by

CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION