Department of Language Mediation
Administration
Head of the Department: Viktoriia Polishchuk, Associate Professor, Cand.Sc. (Philology)
Contact Information: administrative building, Department of Language Mediation
e-mail: viktoriia.polishchuk@oa.edu.ua
Office hours: Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Senior Department Assistant: –Svitlana Kozhenevska
Contact Information: administrative building, Department of Language Mediation
e-mail: kafedra.iem@oa.edu.ua
Office hours: Monday to Friday: 8. 45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
General Information about the Department
The Department was established on April 8, 2005 by the resolution of the Academic Council of the National University of "Ostroh Academy".
The Department’s research topic — Applied Linguistic Studies in Terms of Intercultural Communication (state registration number 0120U105118)
The work of the Department is aimed at training of professionals who have practical and theoretical knowledge, high professional qualification, knowledge and skills of French, German, Polish, Spanish languages at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Linguistics. The work of the Department is carried out according to annual plans of educational and research work, which are approved by the department in accordance with the strategic plan of the faculty work.
Professors of the Department are engaged in the development of modern educational-methodical complexes, development and updating of tests and examination tasks. Along with the traditional methods, innovative and interactive technologies actively used:
THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE MEDIATION:
- Research Laboratory Modern Technologies of Forming a Foreign Language Communicative Competence;
- DELE Exam Center (International Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language);
- Testing Center for the German International Certificate onSET (DaF-Online);
- language clubs of French, German, Polish and Spanish.
THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department organizes a monthly scientific-methodological workshop Innovative Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages within the scientific topic Applied Linguistic Studies in Terms of Intercultural Communication as well as Annual regional scientific-methodical seminar for teachers of Polish language on the topic Teaching Polish Language in Ukraine: Problems and Perspectives. Every year the Department organizes International scientific and practical conference Applied Linguistic Studies in Terms of Intercultural Communication and International scientific and practical online-conference Lingvocognitive and Sociocultural Aspects of Communication.
Scientific Proceedings of the National University of "Ostroh Academy". "Philology" Series. are published.
There are student scientific groups that work at the Department:
Linguocognitive, Pragmatic, and Sociocultural Aspects of Communication (supervised by Inna Kovalchuk, Associate Professor, Cand.Sc. (Psychology))
The Structural and Semantic Features of Phraseological Units in the Languages of Different Structural Type (supervised by Viktoriia Polishchuk, Associate Professor, Cand.Sc. (Philology))