Research at the Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Purposes


The department provides training for higher education applicants and doctors of philosophy in the English, German and French languages for professional purposes. Participants of scientific exchange programs from the universities of Slovakia, France, Austria, Germany work at the department. The department conducts scientific work in the field of philology, methods of teaching foreign languages for professional use and pedagogy.

The main directions of scientific activity of the department are:

  • Organization, holding and participation in scientific and scientific-practical all-Ukrainian and international conferences;
  • Organization, holding and participation in scientific and methodological seminars and workshops;
  • Publication of scientific and methodological articles, collections of scientific papers;
  • Publication of scientific articles in co-authorship with students and graduate students;
  • Publication of abstracts and participation in scientific and scientific-practical conferences

Department conferences::

1.Name of the event- XV International Scientific and Methodological Conference "Methodological and Psychological-Pedagogical Problems of Teaching Foreign Languages at the Present Stage".

The theme of the event is modern problems of the methodology of teaching foreign philology.

The purpose of the conference: to encourage scientists who take an active public position to take part in the discussion of topical scientific problems of our time in line with the educational approach of subject-language integrated learning, using English as the most common mean of intercultural communication of the scientific community. During the fourteen years of the conference, 14 collections of abstracts were published. About 800 articles on the methodology of teaching a foreign language were published on the topics of conferences, thus these scientific problems continue to be developed by the teachers of the faculty. A distinctive feature of the conference is the cooperation of the teachers of the faculty with the Academy of Continuing Education. The teachers of the department will continue to participate in the organization and conduct of the "Teacher of the Year" competition, regional and republican competitions, competition works of the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, career guidance work among applicants.

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2.The name of the event is the XII All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference with International Participation: «Academic and Scientific Challenges in the 21st Century: CLIL in Action»

The theme of the event is the implementation of projects 1.6 "Effective postgraduate and doctoral studies" and 2.10 "English in the educational space" of the University Development Strategy for 2019-2025

The purpose of the event: to consolidate the efforts of secondary and higher educational institutions to prepare young people for foreign language communication, including professional communication. Search for ways to improve the quality of teaching a foreign language in institutions of higher and secondary education. The purpose of the conference is to exchange experience in innovative technologies for teaching a foreign language in universities and schools in the modern educational, psychological and cultural space.

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3. School-seminar: "New approaches to teaching foreign languages: improving the quality of education - the path to the formation of intellectual capital".

The purpose of the event: to present current developments and share experience with colleagues from other universities in Kharkov. The thematic palette of the school-seminar includes effective distance learning technologies, the experience of didacticization of small text forms, the problems of aesthetic and emotional learning, as well as the features of teaching interfaculty disciplines in a foreign language in heterogeneous groups.

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4.Student scientific conferences (foreign language sections)

1.School of Sociology

XIV International scientific conference of students and postgraduates "Sociology in (Post)Modernity", round table "Contemporary Social World through the Eyes of the Youth"

2.School of Law

All-Ukrainian student scientific conference "The Role of Law in Modern Life"

3.School of Philology

Student conference "Shakespeare Studies"

4.School of Psychology

Student scientific conference "Students' Researches in Modern Psychological Space"

5.Education and Research Institute of Computer Physics and Energy

Student conference "The Chernobyl Disaster"

6.School of Radiophysics, Biomedical Electronics and Computer Systems

Student conference “Novel Approaches in Radiophysics and Biophysics”

7.School of Computer Science

Student Conference “Innovative Technologies and Issues in Modern Computerised Space”

8.School of Mathematics and Computer Science

Student Conference “Math & Arts”

9.School of physics

Student conference “Physics 2016”

10.Education and Research Institute “School of Physics and Technologies”

Student conference “Innovations in Optical Fiber Technology”

11. School of History

Student conference "History - the Mirror of Epochs"

12.School of Biology

Student conference "Discoveries in Modern Biology"

13.School of Philosophy

Student conference "Friendship and Love in Philosophical Awareness"

14.School of Chemistry

Student conference "On the Way to Modern Chemical Technologies"

15.School of Medicine

Student conference "Medicine Today"

16.School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism

Student conference “Modern challenges in Earth sciences”

17.Educational and Research Institute of Ecology

Student scientific conference ”Ecology is a priority”