Department of English Stylistics
Head of the department
Professor Kira Maximovna Iriskhanova, Ph.D.
The Department employs 25 teachers, of those one with a higher Doctorate, 10 Ph.D. degree holders; four professors and 7 associate professors. Among the leading researchers of the department are: Prof. K.M. Iriskhanova, Prof. N.D. Tokareva, Prof. E.G. Belyaevskaya, Prof. N.M. Osvetimskaya, Prof. E.V. Salygina, Prof. K.V. Golubina, Prof. S.A. Andreeva, Prof. O.B. Nayok, Prof. I.K. Seskutova.
Together with the departments of Phonetics, Lexicology and Grammar, the Department of English Stylistics trains specialists towards the diploma in 'Linguistics and Intercultural Communication', within the framework of the specialty 'Theory and Methodology of teaching foreign languages and cultures' (majoring in Linguistics and Teaching).
The faculty of the department teaches 'Practice in speech communication culture' to fourth and fifth year students of full-time and evening departments, at the In-Service Teacher Training Institute; the faculty also gives classes of professionally-oriented translation from English into Russian to the fifth-year students.
Professors of the Department deliver lectures in English Stylistics to the fourth year students of the full-time and evening departments, to the students at the In-Service Teacher Training Institute, to post-graduate students.
Professors of the Department supervise students writing course and graduation papers focusing on the current topics in linguistic stylistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis within all functional styles, stylistic aspects of linguistic communication.
Professors of the department are highly qualified professionals possessing encyclopedic knowledge not only of the English language, but also of stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive and functional linguistics, intercultural communication theory, discourse analysis.
The department conducts considerable scientific and methodological work. It continues the research into stylistics initiated by Professor I.R. Galperin, who was the author of numerous scientific papers and English language textbooks as well as a co-author of the Large English-Russian dictionary, a unique publication of its time.
The department annually holds a seminar to commemorate Professor Galperin where presentations are made by teachers, postgraduate students and by senior undergraduates, as well as by former postgraduates and doctorate students.
Every year the department publishes a collection of articles dedicated to various topics within the framework of English stylistics.
The department maintains a large group of postgraduate students. Most of the teachers of the department successfully combine teaching and scientific research. Most of the leading professors of the department supervise the research by the postgraduate students, by teachers from other departments of the Moscow State Linguistic University and other educational establishments of Russia as well as a number of foreign countries.
The department pays considerable attention to methods of, and the latest tendencies in teaching foreign languages on the advanced level. The faculty participated in the creation of the European Language Portfolio for Philologists and its piloting.
A group of authors led by Rector I.I. Khaleeva, academician of the Russian Academy of Education, were granted a special award of the Government of the Russian Federation for extraordinary achievements in education. The European Language Portfolio is an innovative teaching tool. For the first time the process of learning a foreign language has become transparent both for the teacher and the learner. The ELP contributes to the creation and the development of intercultural communication skills. The ELP is based on an algorithmic principle which determines the order of actions a student should undertake in order to progress in one’s studies. This makes the European Language Portfolio a truly universal model, adaptable to the student at any level.