Russia, Krasnoyarsk region, The Department of Latin and Foreign Languages
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70, Mira Street, 660022, Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
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+7 (391) 227 12 12 |
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Monday - Saturday 9 AM - 15 PM |
Head of the Department - Oksana A. Gavrilyuk, Candidate of Science (Education), Associate Professor
The Department of Latin and foreign Languages was founded in 1942.
Currently 11 associate professors and 9 senior lecturers work at the department. There are 7 Candidates of Science (PhDs).
The department provides regular classes in foreign languages (English, Business English, and German) as well as classes in Russian, Latin and Intercultural Communication for undergraduate medical students. There is also a course of Academic English for medical postgraduates.
In order to enhance the University students’ and lecturers’ communicative skills additional linguistic training is provided in the following courses: “General English”, "English for business cooperation in medicine", “Medical English for Practicing Doctors”, “English for Academic Purposes”, “German”, “Italian”, “Spanish”, and “French”.
After training at the Department during a pre-clinical phase of their studies, medical students continue learning foreign languages through attending additional foreign language courses, as well as fundamental and clinical courses which are taught in English.
The Department organizes and holds:
– supplementary language training courses and consultation classes for students and the University faculty staff;
– international training teleconferences with participation of students from foreign universities;
– methodological workshops and conferences for foreign language teachers;
– academic writing workshops for students and the University faculty staff.
A range of projects of the Department is devoted to development of international students’ oral and written communication skills in Russian as a foreign language. Particularly, classes of Russian as a foreign language, eloquence and presentation skills training sessions, workshops, conferences, round-table discussions and various cultural events are held with the participation of international students.
Methodological work of the Department
The staff of the department developed more than 50 educational syllabi, more than 50 educational-methodical complexes, 10 training books, including 4 electronic textbooks. Among them, 2 textbooks have been approved and recommended by the Coordination Council on Education “Public Health and Medical Science” of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science as training manuals for undergraduate medical students of Russia.
Various innovation technologies are introduced into the teaching process, including cooperative learning, CLIL, autonomy-focused training, flipped classroom, and others.
Research
The scientific work of the department is carried out on different scientific topics within the framework of Linguistics, Linguodidactics, and Higher Education Pedagogy.
Over the past 10 years 3 candidate (PhD) theses were defended, 8 monographs, more than 60 articles in journals of the Higher Attestation Commission Register and more than 25 articles in journals included into WoS and Scopus international databases, were published, more than 5 Russian and International grants were won and 3 patents for inventions were obtained in collaboration with the members of different University departments.
International Activity
The members of the Department participate in a range of international projects and work in close contact with the University International Programs Center. A total of 8 members of the Department work in the Center as translators and provide the translation of medical documents, scientific papers for foreign journals, reports for international conferences, grant applications and other types of information from Russian into foreign languages.
Since 2010 an international program of students’ teleconferences on Global Health issues with universities of the USA and the Netherlands has been introduced.
In 2016 the first English Language Internet Competition with international participation (the Olympiad) for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the medical and pharmaceutical universities had been launched in collaboration with I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and Ural State Medical University.
Since 2017, the competition received the status of the International one. The Contest is now conducted under the guidance of Educational and Methodical Commission in linguistic disciplines for the enlarged group of specialties 31.00.00 - Clinical Medicine and 33.00.00 - Pharmacy at the Coordination Council on Education “Public Health and Medical Science” of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science and in collaboration with Specialist Language Courses, Ltd. (Great Britain). https://specialistlanguagecourses.com/
The Olympiad is open to students of both Russian and foreign medical and pharmaceutical universities. Detailed information about the Olympiad will be presented on its official website
https://intcom.krasgmu.ru/index.php?page[self]=olympiad_2019_20&lang=En
Educational and morale building activities
In 2008 the Center of Intercultural Communication was opened at the Department of Latin and Foreign Languages. The aims of the Centre are:
- to facilitate students’ intercultural communication and develop understanding between students that represent different cultural, language and religious groups;
- to enable students to use their knowledge for effective intercultural communication;
- to enhance understanding of language as a cultural resource;
- to provide opportunities for interdisciplinary study (history, social science, language, art, psychology).
The main directions of the Center’s activity are: development of tolerance (ethnic, religious, world outlook) by organizing special conferences, training sessions, festivals, and panel discussions, introducing special courses for improving students intercultural communication skills, and implementing various research projects in the area of foreign languages and cultures.
Equipment
Multi-media linguistic laboratory with a self-access center was opened at the Department which is equipped with computers, video, audio and multi-media facilities to provide access to various electronic resources for studying foreign languages.
Further professional education
In the present context of medical science and technology advances, growing cultural diversity and the internationalization of higher medical education, the problem of refresher training for Medical English teachers is becoming ever more relevant. In 2016 a new type of advanced training program developed specifically for university teachers of Medical English in collaboration with Sechenov University (Irina Markovina and Jonathan McFarland) was developed. The program was intended to move beyond the limits of the “Foreign language” discipline towards a broader context of professional activity of modern clinicians through considering some foreign language teaching implications within the framework of interdisciplinary teaching practices. Different stages of the program were implemented on the premises KrasSMU in March-April 2016, in November 2017 and in February 2018. Most of the program participants were teachers of KrasSMU. Additionally, representatives of the medical universities of Novosibirsk, Chita, Barnaul and Omsk were engaged at the first stage of the program (in 2016). The overall number of the program participants (March 2016 - February 2018) was 30. The practical part of the program was conducted in partnership with international specialists - Jonathan McFarland, a British expert in Medical English, Dr Isabel Garau, a practicing Spanish oncologist, and Dr Gavin Francis, a Scottish physician and a writer.
