DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Our contacts: 220030, Belarus, Minsk, 18 Savetskaya St., building 2, room 211
Telephone: +375 (17) 327-75-46
E-mail: lingva2006@bspu.by

Head – Dr. OLGA SHYMANSKAYA, Cand. Sc. (Philology), Associate Professor

The Department of Foreign Languages provides teaching 7 foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Latin) at 9 faculties and 2 institutes of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University (graduate and post-graduate programs).
It takes an interdisciplinary approach in its pursuit of conducting educational and translational research-informed professional development with the goal of improving teaching and learning in Belarus and beyond.

The objectives of the Department are:

• ensuring sustainable development of the department;
• ensuring high quality training for students to gain a firm grounding in foreign languages and develop their language competencies;
• methodological support of teaching foreign languages for specific purposes (study guides, workshops, electronic dictionaries, training manuals, etc.);
• implementation of the computer assisted language learning and teaching in the academic process;
• organization of conferences, seminars, web-conferences on TFLs;
• supervising students’ academic research to develop their professional interests and horizons;
• cooperating with schools to provide career guidance and facilitate practical aspect of future teachers’ education.

Full-time Department staff:
42 staff members, of which: 1 Doctor of Sciences, 8 Doctoral Candidates