Department of Business Foreign Language and International Communication

Head of the Department
Halyna Anatoliivna Cherednichenko
Associate Professor,
Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences

(established in 2003)

The department provides training of competitive highly-qualified specialists in economics and management for the food industry enterprises, as well as other public and private institutions on the modern labour market.

Rapid development of market relations has led to close and deep contacts of domestic business with foreign partners. Consequently, creasing demand there is an in for professionals of interlanguage and intercultural communication who have professionally oriented language skills and abilities to work effectively with their business partners in making contracts, organizing exhibitions, fairs, and establishing cultural ties.

Specialists of the department teach the following disciplines: Foreign Language for Specific Purposes (English, German), Business Foreign Language (for specific purposes), Foreign Language (business course), Business Communication in a Foreign Language at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics and Management and the faculty of Automation and Computer Systems.

The main activities of the Department: to organize and conduct entrance exams in foreign languages for further studies at a postgraduate course and practical classes in foreign languages for postgraduate students and applicants for the preparation to candidate’s examinations in foreign languages in the above-mentioned areas of study, to participate in organizing and conducting entrance examinations in foreign languages to study for "Master’s" Degree (full-time and part-time); to improve the content of teaching according to the latest achievements in science, engineering, technology and production.

The teaching process is provided by highly qualified and highly experienced teachers, as well as by young specialists. In order to improve the efficiency of the educational process, teachers combine traditional and interactive methods of teaching, use role-plays and business games, which allow to use communicative approach in the teaching of foreign languages to non-native speakers and greatly increase the students’ interest in learning foreign languages.

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Educational disciplines taught by the department

scientific and methodological work:

• improvement of teaching and methodological support of the disciplines taught at the department, according to European norms and standards concerning language education;
• development of curricular and syllabuses of educational disciplines (credit modules) of the department, curricular and syllabuses of disciplines for training specialists of different levels;
• writing and preparing for the publication of textbooks, manuals, recommendations, as well as other educational literature and visual aids;
• participating in activities aimed at increasing the teaching skills at leading domestic and international educational centers:the British Council, America House, the International House, Longman Pearson in Ukraine, Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, Alliance Française en Ukraine, etc.

scientific and research work:

• developing the research project «Formation of foreign language communication competence for non-language students: components, levels, innovative technologies»;
• organizing and participating in national and international scientific and practical conferences and scientific seminars;
• preparing students for participation in all-Ukrainian scientific conferences and NUFT scientific conferences;
• conducting the first stage of the All-Ukrainian Olympiad in English and preparing students for participation in the second stage of the Olympiad;
• writing monographs, articles, abstracts and other scientific developments.