The Head of the department
Petrova Marina Nikolaevna
Ph.D., associate professor
M.N.Petrova defended her Ph.D. thesis on problems related to the intonation features of communicative types of statements in English.The main directions of scientific activity are modern strategies for teaching foreign languages; implementation of a communicative-cognitive approach in professionally oriented teaching of foreign languages; innovative teaching technologies; organization of independent work of students; teaching foreign languages in a linguistic and cultural context.
Deputy Head for Research
Sakhnova Olesya Igorevna
Senior Lecturer
O.I. Sakhnova has an academic degree of Master of Philology. Research interests include grammatical aspects of the English language in the framework of the use of a communicative approach in teaching a foreign language. She believes that knowledge of foreign languages enriches a person, broadens their horizons, thus contributing to the achievement of success in life.
Deputy Head for Instruction and Methodology
Osmak Olga Viktorovna
Senior Lecturer
O. Osmak teaches German and English at the Department of Foreign Languages. Research interests include communicative teaching methods; comparative linguistics; study of the problem of neologisms in the German language, as well as internal valence in word formation. O. Osmak promotes the use all types of speech activity in class. She agrees with the statement by J. V. Goethe: “He who does not know a foreign language, knows nothing about his own”.
Deputy Head for Educational Work
Lovets Alexandra Dmitrievna
Research interests include the use of cloud technologies in teaching foreign languages, comparative translation of works of English literature into Russian, motivation of students for self-development and self-education.
Head of the German Language Section
Skachinskaya Irina Anatolyevna
Senior Lecturer
Research interests are linguistic features of translation of professionally oriented literature, the use of test control in foreign language classes; the introduction of information technology in the educational process. She is the author of a number of German language manuals for medical students and the member of the Council of the Faculty of Dentistry.
Head of the English Language Section
Abedkovskaya Irina Yurievna
Senior Lecturer
I.Y.Abedkovskaya is the author of 14 publications and 3 teaching aids. Diploma-recipient of the competitions “Curator of the Year BSMU-2009” and the inter-university competition “Curator of the Year 2012”, held on the basis of the BSPU named after Tank. Winner of the competition “The best curator of the year BSMU-2013”. Supervisor of 26 student research papers, 13 of which were awarded I, II and III degree diplomas. Research interests include the use of modern teaching technologies: a practice-oriented communicative approach, interactive, project, problem technologies, case technology, the use of modern authentic audiovisual materials and multimedia technologies.
Head of the French Language Section
Vasilieva Olga Anatolievna
Senior Lecturer
Teaches English and French at the Department of Foreign Languages of the Belarusian State Medical University. She is a co-author of 2 teaching aids on the French language. She actively explores the topic of using interactive methods in the formation of foreign language competence.
Research interests are the use of modern teaching technologies, improving the quality of teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university, motivating students for self-development and self-education.
Senior Lecturer
Prostotina Olga Valeryevna
Research interests are the development of independence and creativity of students in the process of mastering languages as an ability that ensures readiness for continuous language education and self-education for the purpose of intercultural and professional interaction.
Senior Lecturer
Mitereva Galina Vladimirovna
Research interests are modeling real professional ties and relationships in the educational activities of students, cooperation and co-creation of all subjects of the educational process, increasing cognitive activity and developing students' initiative, implementing a competency-based approach in learning foreign languages.
Senior Lecturer
Menzhinskaya-Voitova Alexandra Viktorovna
Research interests are researching the problems of mastering borrowings from French, English into Russian and Belarusian; studying the latest methods of teaching foreign languages.
Senior Lecturer
Zolotova Olga Vladimirovna
Research interests include the formation of linguistic competencies in students of a non-linguistic university, the study of interactive methods and technologies and their use in the educational process. Co-authored the English language guide “The UK Today”.
Senior Lecturer
Busko Ekaterina Vladimirovna
Professional credo “Knowledge is not given, knowledge is taken”, which led to such a sphere of professional and scientific interest as methods and techniques of motivating medical students to study a foreign language. E.V.Busko is engaged in the study of the problems “Professionally-oriented teaching of a foreign language”, “Modern technologies in teaching a foreign language.” She regularly gives reports at the seminars of the department and the university.
Senior Lecturer
Sayanova Galina Ivanovna
Research interests are the latest methods and modern technologies for teaching foreign languages, using a systematic approach to teaching English for intercultural communication, developing issues of the effectiveness of managing the educational process by the method of cooperation and co-creation, increasing the cognitive activity and initiative of students.
Senior Lecturer
Kostiouchkina Oxana Mikhailovna
Research interests are qualitative improvement of a learner’s level of foreign language communicative competence based on the use of various forms and methods of modern interactive teaching/learning technologies.
Lecturer
Chirva Antonina Viktorovna
Research interests are the influence of learning foreign languages on the human brain, motivation of students to learn foreign languages, modern methodologies and technologies of teaching foreign languages, motivation of students for self-development and self-education
Lecturer
Lantas Yana Vladimirovna
Ya.V. Lantas teaches English and French at the Department of Foreign languages. Her teaching philosophy is "Not to lecture, but to understand. Not to tell 'how it should be,' but to show 'how it works."
Research interests: linguistic text analysis; integration of emojis into the educational process.
Research interests: linguistic text analysis; integration of emojis into the educational process.
Lecturer
Yakimova Maria Yevgenievna
M.Ye.Yakimova teaches English at the Department of Foreign Languages. Research interests: enhancing learners’ cognitive activity and initiative;
modern methods and technologies for teaching foreign languages;
motivating students toward self-development and self-education.
modern methods and technologies for teaching foreign languages;
motivating students toward self-development and self-education.
TRAINEE LECTURER
Sakalova Anastasiya Yurievna
Teaches English at the Department of Foreign Languages of BSMU.
Research interests: the study of language as a means of professional and intercultural communication, issues of specialised vocabulary translation, and semantic variability of terms in various contexts. Actively researches the emergence and functioning of new linguistic units (neologisms) and abbreviations in modern English.
The teaching focus is on developing first-year students' skills of independent work with authentic English-language literature and on building the communicative competencies necessary for professional interaction with international colleagues.
Research interests: the study of language as a means of professional and intercultural communication, issues of specialised vocabulary translation, and semantic variability of terms in various contexts. Actively researches the emergence and functioning of new linguistic units (neologisms) and abbreviations in modern English.
The teaching focus is on developing first-year students' skills of independent work with authentic English-language literature and on building the communicative competencies necessary for professional interaction with international colleagues.
TRAINEE LECTURER
Kalinau Dzmitry Artiomovich
Graduated from the Faculty of English of Belarusian State University of Foreign Languages (BSUFL) with a degree in "Modern Foreign Languages (Teaching)", followed by a full-time Master's programme in "Linguodidactics", awarded the academic degree of "Master".
Research interests: Integration of authentic polycode materials into the teaching of receptive and productive types of speech activity; implementation of communicative-oriented and communicative-ethnographic approaches in teaching university-level students; application of the semiotic model of contextual foreign language teaching; linguostylistic and graphic features of Old English epic poetry; dialectological atlases of Belarusian, Finnish, and English.
Research interests: Integration of authentic polycode materials into the teaching of receptive and productive types of speech activity; implementation of communicative-oriented and communicative-ethnographic approaches in teaching university-level students; application of the semiotic model of contextual foreign language teaching; linguostylistic and graphic features of Old English epic poetry; dialectological atlases of Belarusian, Finnish, and English.
TRAINEE LECTURER
Babkova Anhelina Sergeevna
The focus is on a communicative approach, active use of information technologies, striving to individualize learning for each student. This approach makes the language learning process effective and relevant to modern realities.
Research interests include cognitive science and the study of the intertwining of language and reasoning, contemporary linguistic changes occurring under the influence of digital technologies and the opportunities of implementing information technologies into the educational process.
Research interests include cognitive science and the study of the intertwining of language and reasoning, contemporary linguistic changes occurring under the influence of digital technologies and the opportunities of implementing information technologies into the educational process.