DEPARTMENTS UNDER DIRECT CONTROL OF THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

105 Bolshaya Sadovaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344006

Tel. 64-38-00.

Department’s main areas of research:

Developing the concept and the model of multilevel education in the university;

Problems of the standardization of contents in the university;

Humanization of university education;

Contemporary teaching technologies, flexible and various models for its organization;

Developing the creative personality of future teachers with a university degree;

Pedagogical principles for diagnosis, analyzation and training of talented young people;

The role of interdisciplinary links in the process of training specialists in the university;

Organization of students’ independent work;

Promoting students’ motivation for further education;

GERMAN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

5 Zorge St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344090

Tel. 22-35-34

Department’s main areas of research:

Optimum approaches to foreign language teaching based on the model of interrelated teaching of various language aspects;

Active methods of foreign language teaching;

Contrastive Linguistics, Language Typology, Translation;

BIYATENKO-KOLOSKOVA S.Ye. - Contrastive Semantics, Comparative Text Linguistics

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCES

5 Zorge St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344090

Tel. 22-35-34

Department’s main areas of research:

English Language Teaching Methodology in Higher Schools: curriculum development, teaching English for Specific Purposes, communicative approach to English Language Teaching;

Linguistics: syntax, word-building;

Higher Education: the role of foreign language teaching in students’ all-round education;

SAFRONENKO O.I. - Developing student’s creative personality through higher education .

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FOR HUMANITIES

105 Bolshaya Sadovaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 344006

Department’s main areas of research: methods of teaching English for students of Humanities; computer technology in English Language Instruction, communicative approach to ELT; Germanic philology: syntax, morphology, expressive stylistics, word-building.

PSHEGUSOVA G.S. — new information technologies and Distance learning.

FRENCH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

5 Zorge St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344090

Tel. 22-35-34

Department’s main areas of research: Teaching French for Specific Purposes; Text as an object of linguistic research; Methods of teaching French as a second foreign language; Logical and semantical approach to a text.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

28 Zorge St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344090

Department’s main areas of research:

Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

105 Bolshaya Sadovaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344006

Department’s main areas of research:

Methods of improving students’ physical fitness at Rostov State University .

TATARINOV B.N. - Organizational and pedagogical basis of coordinating students’ physical training process.