Department of Foreign Languages for Engineering, Technical and Natural Sciences
The Department is headed by the Candidate of Philological sciences, associate professor Ponomaryova Lilia Fedorovna.The Department was organized in 2002 on the basis of the Department of foreign languages of the Physical-Technical faculty as a result of its division into two separate departments: the Department of foreign languages for technical sciences (headed by associate professor Garkusha V.V. (2002–2008) and since 2008 by associate professor Ponomaryova L.F.) In 2012 the Department was included into the Faculty of the Ukrainian and Foreign Philology and Arts Studies, and the majority of the staff members were transferred to the Department of foreign languages for engineering, technical and natural sciences.
The Department carries out specialized training of Bachelors and Masters in the English and the German languages at the Faculty of Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems, Mechanical and Mathematical Faculty, the Chemistry Faculty, the Geology and Geography Faculty, the Faculty of Biology and Ecology, the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, the Physical-Technical Faculty and the Faculty of the International Economics (the German language). According to the programs, at the faculties where a foreign language is not a major, training in foreign languages lasts for one academic year. For each faculty the special scientific-methodological complexes have been developed. These complexes aim at developing the language competence which is an integral part of professional training of students at a higher educational establishment. The special characteristics of the area of training are taken into account. The academic process is organized in such a way that meets all the requirements of the Bologna process. All the disciplines are taught according to Foreign Languages Program which is recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and according to the European guidelines of the language training and to the national qualification levels. Thus, the necessary conditions for training highly qualified specialists who have a good command of a foreign language are supposed to be created.
10 highly qualified teachers of English and German work at the Department. The posts of associate professors are held by Ponomaryova L.F., the head of the Department, candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor; Znanetska O.M., candidate of Psychological Sciences, associate professor; Posudiievska O.R., candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor; Raylyanova V.E., candidate of Philological Sciences, associate professor; Tsvietaieva O.V., candidate of social communication, Biryukova D.V., candidate of Philological Sciences. The posts of senior teachers are held by Osadcha O.V. and Znanetskyi V.Y. The posts of teachers are held by Petrova A.V., candidate of Philological Sciences and Kaliberda N.V.. Young members of the Department staff are post-graduate students and competitors for a scientific degree.
It was planned that the staff will be working at the scientific and methodological theme “The ways of improving the methods of organizing and performing the independent work in foreign languages of students at the faculties where a foreign language is not a major” for three years beginning with 2016. The aim of this research is studying and complex developing effective pedagogical methods and approaches to organizing and performing the independent work in foreign languages of students at the faculties where a foreign language is not a major, because under the conditions when the number of academic hours is decreasing, the significance of independent work tends to increase steadily.
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Two conferences are annually held by the Department. One of them is the All-Ukrainian conference “The topical problems of teaching foreign languages for professional communication” (for foreign language teachers at higher educational establishments and the young scientists of philological and pedagogical areas), the other is the Regional scientific and practical conference “The topical issues of technical and natural sciences and information technologies (held in foreign languages) which gives young scientists and students of our region the opportunity to present the results of their own theoretical and practical research and exchange ideas and experience of carrying out research work.
The students’ study group of translating professional literature (English and German) is working at the Department. The Olympiad in English and German for the students of engineering, technical and natural sciences and for economic specialities is annually held.