2009
• 8 April 2009 - The 40th Annual SamGU
Student Science Conference will take place. Students will
present their papers dealing with research problems in
the field of English lexicology, stylistics, theory of
grammar, history of English, phonetics, and teaching English.
• 5 April 2009 – We invite all friends, would-be applicants
and school-leavers to come to Doors Open Day of the Department.
It is your chance to learn more about the English Language
Department!
• 26 March 2009 - Our department hosted the 4th regional
conference “Young Linguists on the English Language Studies”.
Materials of the conference will be available later in
Russian at http://www.samgueng.narod.ru/rus/publicatoins.htm.
• 22 March 2009 – Our chair held our annual University
Olympiad “English – 2009” and translators contest for school-leavers.
The names of the winners are available on [see Applicant
- E-2009, YT-2009].
• 11 March 2009 – Demid Tishin, the Head of the translation
service provider ‘All Correct Language Solutions’, delivered
a lecture on translation quality metric for our 4th year
students. Thank you, Mr. Tishin!
• 2 March 2009 - GARY COOPER (senior
member of the editorial board of Cambridge University Press)
conducted a seminar “Words, Words, Words: Teaching and
Learning Vocabulary
in Chunks” for the first- and second-year students of our
department. Mr. Cooper’s presentation resulted in an animated
discussion of the principles of lexicography and latest
vocabulary changes in English. We acknowledge Mr. Cooper’s
contribution to motivating our students.
• 24 February 2009 - The annual scientific conference
of Samara State University researchers took place. 26 members
of our chair actively participated in the conference, presenting
their findings there.
• 26 January – 2 February 2009 - Marina Petrova (CPhil),
Olga Mekheda, and Anna Kuklina conducted a series of seminars
on the Unified State Exam in English for the teachers of
our department.
• 21-28 January 2009 - Alla Grinshtein and Inna Drabkina,
assistant professors, and some fifth-year students of our
department courtesy of International Market Institute (IMI)
in Samara participated in the workshop conducted by Prof.
Andrei Chuzhakin (MGLU), a well-known interpreter and author
of numerous course-books on interpreting practice. (http://apchuzhakin.narod.ru/).
• It is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate
our colleague Anna Kukilna on successfully defending her
CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation):
“Synatgmatics and Syntax of Infinitive Constructions in
the Dynamics of English Speech”.
• Our colleague Prof. Elena Kashina received the regional
award “Public Acknowledgement - 2008” in the category “Acknowledgement
and Respect”. Our most heartfelt congratulations!
• A new book of collected papers has been published by
our Department. The title of the book is “Kommunikativno-kognitivnye
aspekty lingvisticheskikh issledovanij v germanskikh yazykakh”
(Communicative and Cognitive Aspects of Research in Germanic
Languages/ Collected Papers. - Samara: Samara University,
2008. - 250 p. (in Russian, the paper ‘Ironic Inversion
of Gender Roles in M.Spark’s ‘The Finishing School’ by
Anna Galkina (Nice, Sophia Antipolis University) in English).
ISBN 978-5-86465-425-5
• It is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate
our colleague Julia Starostina on successfully defending
her CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation)
: “Pragmalinguistic Potential of Negative Evaluation Utterances
in Conventionalized English Speech”.
2008
23-25
April, 2008]The Volga region round of the All-Russian
Foreign Languages Olympiad among students took place in
Togliatti. Second and fourth year university students from
Samara, Ulianovsk, Saratov and Togliatti participated.
Our team consisting of Maria Ivanova (4th year), Yulia
Syryatova (3d year), Elena Tuzlayeva (4th year), Ekaterina
Tanyukhina (4th year), and Tatiana Lebakina (4th year)
won the team victory. In the individual contest Maria Ivanova
was the first, Yulia Syratova the second, and Elena Tuzlayeva
the third. Maria, Yulia, Elena, Ekaterina, Tatiana -YOU
ARE THE BEST! WELL DONE! GO, GO!
9
April, 2008 The 39th Annual SamGU Student Science
Conference took place. Students presented their papers
dealing with research problems in the field of English
lexicology, stylistics, theory of grammar, history of English,
phonetics, and teaching English. The winners of the 39th
Annual SamGU Student Science Conference took part in the
annual Oblast (Samara Region) Student Science Conference,
winning several awards (E.Kopshukova, A. Tyurina).
27
March, 2008 Our department hosted the 2d regional
conference “Young Linguists on the English Language Studies”.
Young researchers from Samara universities and colleges
participated. Materials of the conference will be available
in Russian later.
23
March, 2008 Our chair held our annual University
Olympiad “English – 2008” for school-leavers. The names
of the winners are available on [see Applicant - E-2008].
12
March, 2008 The annual scientific conference of
Samara State University researchers took place. Members
of our chair actively participated in the conference, presenting
their findings there.
19
February, 2008 Our chair and Macmillan Publishers
held a joint scientific- practical conference “Theory and
Practice of English Classroom Discourse in Modern English
Language Teaching”. Besides presenting scientific papers,
the participants of the conference attended Macmillan Business
English Titles master classes: How Do We Use Them? conducted
by prof. Tamara Nazarova (Moscow State University), ESP:
specific
tips for teachers (Macmillan Guide to Economics) conducted
by Alla Soluyanova (Macmillan Publishers), Business Expects
(In Company) conducted by O.Mishina, Let’s get it personal
(Inside Out) conducted by V. Lekhtsier, Instant Discussions:
a Challenge to Learners (Inside Out) conducted by Alla
Grinshtein (Samara State University). Prof. Antonina Kharkovskaya
(Samara State University) made an interesting multimedia
presentation on linguistic markers of Business English
communication as reflected in Macmillan editions. More
than 200 colleagues from Samara and Togliatti attended
the conference. Judging by the letters we still receive,
they find this conference successful
and very helpful
2007
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the University
Olympiad "English - 2007." [see Applicant
- E-2007]
[10
December, 2007] Macmillan Publishers and our English
Language Department will hold a joint seminar “Modern Trends
in EFL Teaching in Colleges and Universities”. The seminar
will comprise lectures by Professor L.Raitskaya (Moscow
State Institute of International Relations (University)
of the MFA of Russia), Professor A. Kharkovskaya (the Samara
State University), A. Soluyanova (Macmillan) and EFL workshops.
Please contact us for details.
[18
November, 2007] We invite all friends, would-be
applicants and school-leavers to come to Doors Open Day
of the Department. It is your chance to learn more about
the English Language Department!
Professor
Elena Kashina shares her reflections on Easter Courses
in “Pilgrims”, Canterbury. [read]
Our
lecturers and instructors participated in the International
Scientific Conference "Language and Culture in Russia:
Current State and Evolution” organized by Samara State University.
The conference took place on 24 – 27 October. Linguists from
Russia and Germany took part in the conference.
On
22-24 September our assistant professors Alla Grinshtein
and Inna Drabkina participated in a seminar on translator
training conducted by Vadim V. Sdobnikov, a well-known theorist
of translation from the Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod.
Problems of professional training of translators and interpreters
as well as problems of translation assessment were touched
upon at the seminar. Vadim V.Sdobnikov also gave a master
class in translation techniques.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Tatiana A. Gouralnik on successfully defending
her CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation).
The thesis focused on American society and culture in the
linguistic study of new words.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Marina Cherkunova on successfully defending her
CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation). The
thesis focused on pragmalinguistic characteristics of abstracts
of English course-books and monographs.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Tatiana Iskina on successfully defending her CPhil
thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation). The thesis
focused on pragmalinguistic analysis of abbreviations in
Business English dictionaries and course-books.
Materials
of the 2d regional conference “Young Linguists on the English
Language Studies” are now available in Russian on our site.
[13
May, 2007] First and Fresh
Impressions from Bangor (Wales) by A.Kharkovskaya
[15
April, 2007] We invite all friends, would-be applicants
and school-leavers to come to Doors Open Day of the Department.
It is your chance to learn more about the English Language
Department!
[11
April, 2007] the 38th Annual SamGU Student Science
Conference will take place. Students will present their
papers dealing with research problems in the field of English
lexicology, stylistics, theory of grammar, history of English,
phonetics, and teaching English.
[3
April, 2007] Ann Leventeris, EL International Teacher
Trainer and Cambridge ESOL Examiner, delivered lectures
‘Teaching with Exams in Mind’ and ‘Learner’s Dictionaries
in Evolution: from Beginnings to Longman Exams Dictionaries’
for the teachers of English and for the students of our
department. The lectures are part of the Longman Teacher
Development programme.
[25
March, 2007] Our chair held our annual University Olympiad
“English - 2007” for school-leavers. The names of the winners
will be available soon [see Applicant - E-2007].
[20-22
March, 2007] Samara teachers of English participated
in the meeting with Prof. Svetlana Ter-Minasova, Doctor
in Philology, the Dean of Foreign Languages Department
and Region Studies of the MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY. Svetlana
Ter-Minasova delivered several lectures on methods of teaching
English as a foreign language, cultural awareness and global
English, and presented a new teaching complex developed
in the MSU. Our professors Antonina Kharkovskaya and Elena
Kashina, associate professor Alla Grinshtein, assistant
professor Olga Mekheda, instructors Elina Panova, Olga
Dyumina, Olga Romodanova, Galina Orekhova, Galina Rogozhina
and Anna Pyzh attended the meeting. They were awarded certificates
of participation.
[19
March, 2007] It is with the most sincere pleasure that
we congratulate our colleague Olga Bochkova on successfully
defending her CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD
dissertation). The thesis focused on categories of modality,
time and space in Russian and American science fiction.
[5-12
March, 2007] Prof. Antonina Kharkovskaya, our Department
Chairperson, went to the University of Wales, Bangor as
a member of the Samara State University delegation. The
two universities have signed a memorandum of co-operation.
[1
March, 2007] Our department hosted
the 2d regional conference “Young Linguists
on
the English Language Studies”. Young researchers
from Samara and Togliatti participated.
Materials of the conference will be available
in Russian
later. Follow our news!
[26
February, 2007] The annual scientific conference of
Samara State University researchers took place. Members
of our chair actively participated in the conference, presenting
their findings there.
[20
February, 2007] Gwyneth Fox, Aston University researcher
and a member of the editorial board of McMillan Education,
delivered a lecture “A Learner’s Dictionary: Attraction
of Words”. Many thanks for the brilliant lecture!
Galina Zalomkina’s book ‘Poetics of Time
and Space in the Gothic Plot’ Samara, 2006. 228 p. (in Russian)
has been published recently. For purchasing it please contact
Galina Zalomkina via galka@samtel.ru .
A new book of collected papers has been
published by our Department. The title of the book is “Kommunikatovnoe
prostranstvo diskursa v sovremennykh germanskikh yazykakh”
(Discourse Space of Communication in Modern Germanic Languages)/
Collected Papers. - Samara: Samara University, 2006. - 240
p (in Russian, the paper ‘Word Boundary Detection Based on
Distribution Cues in English’ by Prof. Dr.Wallmansberger,
Hagen Peukert (Kassel University) in English). ISBN 5-86465-411-6
Researchers from Saint-Petersburg, Samara, Belgorod (Russia), Kassel (Germany),
and Minsk (Byelorussia) have contributed their works.
The papers focus on discourse theory, cognitive linguistics and linguistic
concepts. The collected papers may present interest both for researchers and
students. For purchasing the collected papers please contact us appolo@ssu.samara.ru
In
February 2007 our department will host the 2d regional
conference “Young Linguists on the English Language Studies”.
We invite young linguists, post-graduate students and university
instructors and lecturers to participate and to contribute
their papers. Papers should be sent to appolo@ssu.samara.ru and
hmsfroop@mail.ru .
2006
13
October, 2006 - Prof. E.Ponomarenko from Moscow State
Institute of International Relations (University) of the
MFA of Russia gave a seminar on discourse functional consistency
for post-graduate students of our department.
October,
2006 - It is with the most sincere pleasure that
we congratulate our colleague Elena Kashina on being
awarded the academic title of professor.
October,
2006 – Jeremy Slagowski, an American Fulbright
Scholar, lectured students of our department on
communicative approach in teaching EFL.
Our
lecturers and instructors participated in the
International Scientific Conference "Linguistic
Personality – Text - Discourse" organized
by Samara State University. The conference took
place on 3 – 5 October. Linguists from Russia,
Germany, Kazakhstan, and Byelorussia took part
in the conference.
A
new book of collected papers of the participants
has been published by our Department. The
title of the book is “Yazykovaya lichnost
– Tekst – Diskurs” (Linguistic Personality
– Text – Discourse)/ Collected Papers in
2 Volumes. - Samara: Samara University, 2006.
- 243 p +259 p. (in Russian, several papers
in English). ISBN 5-86465-398-6
Such leading researchers as L. Sergeyeva (Ufa, Russia),
E. Skoblikova (Samara, Russia), F.Zeller, J.Wallmannsberger
(Kassel, Germany), C.Bildschun (Wurzburg, Germany) have
contributed their works.
The collection contains papers on Germanic and Slavic studies by linguists of
Russia, Byelorussia, Germany and Kazakhstan. The papers focus on discourse theory,
cognitive linguistics, linguistic concepts, verbal behaviour in different cultural
contexts, and on linguistic worldimages; frequent reference is made to strategies
of speech communication. The collected papers may present interest both for researchers
and students. For purchasing the collected papers please contact us via
appolo@ssu.samara.ru It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our colleague Anna Pyzh
on successfully defending her CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation).
The thesis focused on Functional-Pragmatic and Discourse Aspects of the English
Law Terminology Usage. Well done, Anna!
June
2006 - Maria Dyomina’s CPhil thesis research project won the regional
government grant. Maria Dyomina is our young promising instructor. Well
done, Maria! Our congratulations!
A
new book of collected papers has been published by our Department.
The title of the book is “Sovremennye metody i tehnologii issledovaniya
germanskikh yazykov” (Modern Methods of Linguistic Studies in Germanic
Languages)/ Collected Papers. - Ed. by S.Dubinin. Samara: Samara University,
2005. - 284 p. (in Russian, 3 papers in German, 1 in English). ISBN
5-86465-321-7
Such leading researchers as F.Zeller, J.Wallmannsberger
(Kassel, Germany), A. Konig (Wurzburg, Germany), Isabel Verdauger
Anna Poch (Barcelona, Spain), and N. Aksyonova (Saint-Petersburg,
Russia) have contributed their works.
The collection contains
papers on Germanic and Romance studies by linguists of Russia,
Germany and Spain. The papers focus on discourse theory, studies
of language imagery, problems of linguistic concepts, and computer
linguistics; frequent reference is made to strategies of speech
communication. The collected papers may present interest both for
researchers and students. For purchasing the collected papers please
contact us via appolo@ssu.samara.ru
28
February – 1 March, 2006 – Our department hosted a regional
conference “Young Linguists on the English Language Studies”.
Post-graduate students, and university instructors and lecturers
from Samara State University (SSU), Samara Academy of Humanities
(SAH), Samara State Teachers’ Training University (SSTTU) and
Samara State Medical University (SamSMU) took part in the conference.
Materials of the conference are available in Russian at http://www.universite.ru/slugba/0603/0603010201.rtf.
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the contest
“Young Translator -2006”. [see Applicant
– YT-2006]
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the University
Olympiad “English - 2006.” [see Applicant
- E-2006]
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the
contest “Young Translator -2005”. [see
Applicant – YT-2005] Test assignments are
available [here].
The best translations are available on [here].
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the
University Olympiad “English - 2005.” [see
Applicant - E-2005]
2005
December
2005 – Prof. Antonina Kharkovskaya, our Department
Chairperson, was awarded a commemorative medal “100 years
of Russian Trade Unions”.
Lewis
Durren, M.A. in Linguistics, a graduate of the
University of Wales, Bangor, delivered a number of lectures
focusing on the problems of intercultural communication
and global English. Our students enjoyed the opportunity
of exchanging their opinions on speech behaviour of Russian
speakers with Mr.Durren. They warmly welcomed his shrewd
observations, most persuasive arguments and vivid illustrations.
On
the 28th of November Samara teachers of
English participated in the meeting with Dr. Elena Solovova,
Candidate in Pedagogy, the Department Chairperson of the
Chair of Teaching Foreign Languages of the MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL
UNIVERSITY. Elena Solovova presented her course-book “Guide-Interpreter”
and a new teaching complex for schools with a number of subjects
taught in English. Our professor Elena Kashina, associate
professor Alla Grinshtein, assistant professor Inna Drabkina
and our instructors Nadezhda Garber and Xenia Filatova, as
well as a number of senior students, attended the meeting.
On 7-18
November Vyacheslav Shevchenko participated in
a special programme of the Curriculum Resource Center (CRC)
in Central European University's (CEU), Budapest www.ceu.hu.
Mr. Shevchenko’s project ‘Curriculum development and design
(ESP for students of Sociology at the Samara State University)‘
won a grant funded by Open Society Institute's Higher Education
Support Program (OSI - HESP). While staying in CEU Mr.
Shevchenko attended classes conducted by Prof. P.Rajaram
and M.Szabo on curriculum design and development and worked
in the CEU library. In Budapest Mr. Shevchenko met colleagues
from Russia and many other countries, and he believes his
CEU experience to be very valuable.
It is the second grant won by our lecturers recently. The first one was won
by Natalia V. Ilichova in 2004. Ms Ilichova with her project “Communicative
Strategies Applied and Recommended in Business English Video Courses “Market
Leader: Alliance”, “Staying Ahead”, “Business Leader Briefings” participated
in the Samara Region contest of students’, post-graduate students’ and young
scientists’ projects and won it.
Our
lecturers and instructors participated in the 3rd International
Science-Practical Conference "Problems of Teaching Languages
and Linguistics" organized by Samara Academy of Humanities
(SAH). The conference took place on 14-15 November. Professor
Antonina Kharkovskaya chaired one of the sections, “Problems
of Text Linguistics”, where she, associate professor Inna
Drabkina, senior instructor Tatiana Gouralnik and instructors
Tatiana Iskina and Marina Mikhlik presented their papers
on nominative aspects of book titles, vocabulary of Internet
forums, lexicographic parameters in linguistic study of American
neologisms, abbreviations in lexicographic tradition and
paralinguistic markers in English ads respectively.
On
10 November 2005 Alla Grinshtein and Inna Drabkina,
assistant professors, and their students courtesy of American
Corner in Samara participated in the workshop conducted
by BEATA LOZINSKI, Senior English Language Fellow, US embassy
in Moscow. BEATA LOZINSKI taught a class in teaching writing
skills that was most enlightening and helpful. Thank you,
Beata, for your untraditional approach and mastery! Photo
courtesy of Irina Kuznetsova, director of American Center
in Samara
On
3-4 November Mario Rinvolucri, a well-known consultant
who also teaches language and does teacher training for
Pilgrims, Canterbury, England, U.K., conducted a seminar
in Samara dedicated to new approaches in EFL teaching.
Our professor Elena Kashina initiated the invitation of
Mr. Rinvolucri to Samara within the framework of her teacher
training programme. She and our senior students participated
actively in the workshop dealing with different learner
intellects and NLP in teaching English.
Our
chair is currently accepting papers for publishing in the
next international issue of collected papers under the title
of "Discourse Dynamics in Modern Germanic Languages”.
For details please connect us via appolo@ssu.samara.ru.
Victor
Votinov (professor, academician, the Moscow International
Pedagogical Academy) conducted a seminar for the teachers
of our department. He conducted a workshop on ‘sliding’,
applying interchangeable teaching modules in EFL teaching.
He also awarded our teachers certificates for mastering
the method of ‘sliding’.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate
our colleague Natalia V. Ilicheva
on successfully defending her CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation).
The thesis focused on analyzing communicative strategies applied and recommended
in Business English video courses “Market Leader: Alliance”, “Staying Ahead”,
“Business Leader Briefings”.
A
new book of collected papers has been published by our
Department. The title of the book is “Slovo – Vyskazyvanie
– Diskurs” (Word - Utterance – Discourse)/ Collected Papers.
- Ed. by A. Kharkovskaya. Samara: Samara University, 2004.
- 344 p. (in Russian, 3 papers in English). ISBN 5-86465-321-7
Such leading researchers as I. Arnold (Saint-Petersburg,
Russia), F.Zeller, J.Wallmannsberger (Kassel, Germany) have
contributed their works. The chair is also very grateful
to Kevin McCaughey (Senior English Language Fellow, Vladivostok)
for co-operation.
The collection contains papers on Germanic and Romance studies
by linguists of Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Germany
and the USA. The papers focus on discourse theory, computer
linguistics, neologisms, problems of translation; frequent
reference is made to strategies of speech communication.
The collected papers may present interest both for researchers
and students. For purchasing the collected papers please
contact us via appolo@ssu.samara.ru
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate
our colleague Elena Kashina on being awarded the academic
title of professor.
2004
This
year the Samara State University is celebrating its 35th
anniversary. Our faculty is also celebrating the 30th anniversary
of our English Language Department and German Language Department.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Elena Kashina on successfully defending her DPed
thesis (equivalent of post-doctoral American dissertation
in EFL Teaching Methods).
E.
Kashina’s book ‘Theatrical Context of the Professional Activity
of an EFL Teacher’. Samara, 2003. 118 p. (in Russian) has
been published recently. For purchasing it please contact
Elena Kashina via e_kashina@mail.ru
Kashina
E. Drama Techniques in Training EFL Teachers. Samara, 2003.
296 p. (in Russian) has been published recently. For purchasing
it please contact Elena Kashina via e_kashina@mail.ru
A
new book of collected papers has been published by the German
Language Department together with our department. The title
of the book is "Aspects of Functioning and Development
of West-Germanic Languages" / Collected Papers. - Ed.
by S. Dubinin. Samara: Samara University, 2003. - 277 p.
(in Russian, 2 papers in German).
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the contest
“Young Translator -2004”. Test assignments are available
on [Абитуриент
- КОНКУРС НАЧИНАЮЩИХ ПЕРЕВОДЧИКОВ].
At
the Samara region student scientific conference our students
Olga Makarova and Xenia Morozkina were awarded second prizes
in their sections, and Elena Gorshkova won the third prize.
[On
13-14 April 2004] the 35th Annual SamGU Student Science Conference
took place. Student papers dealing with research problems
in the field of English lexicology, stylistics, theory of
grammar, history of English, phonetics, and teaching English
were accepted. The best theses in their sections were presented
by Xenia Radaeva, Anna Chaplygina, Xenia Filatova, Oksana
Degtyaryova, Marina Zinovyeva, Marina Fefelova. Some of the
theses of the best papers (English Language Department only)
are available in Russian [see Абитуриент
– Конференция-35].
[On
14 and 21 March 2004] senior grade students of English took
part in the University Olympiad (contest among school-leavers.
Awards are given for fluency in English). On 4 April the
winners’ names were announced; they are available on our
site [see Applicant - E-2004].
On
3-4 March, 2004 the annual scientific conference of Samara
State University researchers took place.
[8
January, 2004] Victor Votinov (professor, academician, the
Moscow International Pedagogical Academy) conducted a seminar
for the teachers of our department. He informed our staff
of the interchangeable teaching modules in EFL teaching.
2003
Kashina,
E. Drama Art in the Professional Training of EFL Teachers.
Samara, 2002. 185 p. (in Russian) has been published recently.
For purchasing it please contact Elena Kashina via e_kashina@mail.ru
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Galina Zalomkina on successfully defending her
CPhil thesis (equivalent of American PhD dissertation) and
on getting the academic title of Candidate in Philology.
The thesis focused on analyzing time and space in gothic
novels.
A
new book of collected papers has been published by our Department.
The title of the book is "Communication in the Dialogue
of Cultures" / Collected Papers. - Ed. by A. Kharkovskaya.
Samara: Samara University, 2002. - 228 p. (in Russian). The
collection contains papers on Germanic studies by linguists
of Moscow, Samara and the USA.
The papers focus on problems that arise when languages and their
speakers come into interaction; frequent reference is made to
strategies of speech communication, neologisms, tropes, national
varieties of Germanic languages and their interrelation, problems
of translation. The collected papers may present interest both
for researchers and students.
For purchasing the collected papers please contact us via appolo@ssu.samara.ru
[8
July, 2003] It is with the most sincere pleasure that we
congratulate our colleague Vyacheslav Shevchenko on getting
his CPhil degree (equivalent of American PhD).
[15
April, 2003] The 34th Annual SamGU Student Scientific Conference
is over. Let's look back at it and analyze its results. The
theses of the best papers (English Language Department only)
are available in Russian [see Абитуриент
– Конференция-34].
We
are happy to announce the names of the winners of the University
Olympiad (English) - 2003. [see Applicant
- E-2003]
Our
lecturers and instructors participated in the International
Science-Practical Conference "Language and Culture" organized
by Longman, Developing Education Centre of Samara and Moscow
City Pedagogical Institute. The conference took place on
11-12 March. Professor Antonina Kharkovskaya, associate professors
Elvirina Vassilyeva, Inna Drabkina, Svetlana Maksakova, Olesya
Klimanova and instructor Natalia Ilycheva presented their
papers on business etiquette markers, phonetic peculiarities
of substandard English as reflected in fiction, strategies
of request and refusal in business letters, teaching cultural
awareness, textbook discourse and approaches to teaching
Business English for Philology students, respectively. Associate
professor Elena Kashina chaired one of the sections where
a discussion of the efficiency of British and American teaching
complexes in Russian classrooms took place.
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Vyacheslav Shevchenko on successfully defending
his thesis. The CPhil (Ph.D.) thesis “The Cognitive Aspects
of the Multifunctional Lexical Items’ Use in the Sphere of
the English Business Communication” was defended on February,
26th, 2003.
[19-20
February, 2003] members of our chair took part in the annual
scientific conference of Samara State University researchers.
All of our lecturers and instructors participated by presenting
their papers and discussing them.
2002
It
is with the most sincere pleasure that we congratulate our
colleague Olesya Klimanova on successfully defending her
CPhil (Ph.D) thesis “Wording of Tasks in Authentic English
Textbooks for EFL Students” and on getting the academic title
of Candidate in Philology.
T.
Gouralnik, senior instructor of English Language Department,
took a seminar on Humanities Computing Survey. The staff
of the Department took part in the seminar. T. Gouralnik's
main focus of attention was survey of how computer software
packages are used in humanities disciplines: for computer-based
instruction, for academic publishing, and as research tools.
She also picked up on some aspects of assessing the credibility
of a web-source and dealt with the rules of quoting a web-source
for academic publishing.
[5
July, 2002] an interview with A. Kharkovskaya has been published.
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