Courses and Seminars

Courses and Seminars of the Department of Germanic Languages and Cultures: academic year 2013/2014

• Modern methods of compiling and running tests in foreign languages (German language). Author: PhD, associate professor S. Gorbachevskaya 

• Military organisations, intelligence services and law enforcement system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Author: PhD, (full professor) V. Zaharov
• Synchronic and diachronic analysis of the vocabulary of German language. Author: PhD, associate professor A. Edlichko
• The use of information technologies in teaching German as a foreign language. Author: PhD, associate professor S. Gorbachevskaya
• Publicistic text analysis. Author: PhD, assistant professor M. Smirnova

Professor: PhD, associate professor Svetlana Gorbachevskaya

Duration: 2 terms. The course is designed for the third-, fourth- and fifth-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies.

The course is designed to provide students with the main trends of development and use of testology in teaching of foreign languages, with European requirements to compiling of language competencies tests and running of them and analysis of test results as well as with methods of preparation of texts oriented to a certain level of competencies. The special attention is focused on the work with information and communication technologies (moodle, blogs, forums, computer test forms).

• European scale of language competencies;
• Characteristics of text constructs
• Relevant materials for compiling of the tests
• Text qualifiers, aims, format and assessment methods
• Difficulty level, cognitive and psychological factors necessary for choosing appropriate texts;
• Integration of lexical and grammatical tests into test modules;
• Assessment criteria of the test results;
• Analysis of tests (A1-C2);
• The role of Internet-technologies in the work of the test-compiler 

Working language: Russian and German

End-of-Course Assessment: pass/fail. Sample assignments correspond to the themes of the course.

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50

E-mail: [email protected]

Professor: PhD, (full professor) Vladimir Zaharov

Duration: 2 terms. The seminar is designed for the third-, fourth- and fifth-year students studying German.

• Enhanced studying of sources on the subject stated: official documents of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as memoirs.

• Armed forces of the the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundeswehr).
• Federal Intelligence Service / BND.
• The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution / BfV.
• Counterintelligence service / MAD
• The Federal Ministry of the Interior / BMI
• Federal Criminal Police Office / BKA
• Federal Police and Federal Border Guard / BP – BGS

Working language: Russian and German

End-of-Course Assessment: pass/fail, presentation of term paper and diploma thesis.

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50; (903) 552 60 63

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Professor: PhD, associate professor Angela Edlichko

Duration: 2 terms. The course is designed for the third-, fourth- and fifth-year students specializing in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication and studying German.

The aim of the seminar is to form and develop skills to analyse structural, semantic and pragmatic peculiarities of German vocabulary (in the modern period and in diachrony).

• to enhance and extend knowledge acquired while studying theoretical and practical disciplines connected with the German language
• to inform about modern theoretical linguistic works on the issues connected with the characteristics of lexical units and methods of its analysis
• to inform about main methods and means of linguistic study of a word which are used in the modern linguistics
• to study about synchronic and historical analysis of vocabulary on the basis of system relations of the language
• to form and develop skills for further scientific work of the students

Working language: Russian and German

End-of-Course Assessment: pass/fail, presentation of term paper and diploma thesis.

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Professor: PhD, associate professor Svetlana Gorbachevskaya

Duration: 2 terms. The course is designed for the third-, fourth- and fifth-year students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies

To inform students of modern methods of teaching German using computer and Internet sources. The important element of the seminars is improving of linguistic, communicative and didactic competences of the students. At the seminars students exercise certain language (grammatical structures and vocabulary) and speech units and study different models of didaction. Moreover, student study to compile, conduct and analyse linguistic texts.

• elements of speech competency of the graduates from linguistic faculties;
• linguistic norm and deviations in the modern oral and written German speech;
• productive and receptive knowledge of grammar phenomena of the German language; system-based and functional grammar in the frame of European standards A1-C1;
• analysis of text-books;
• analysis of internet sources;
• ICT as an instrument of teaching foreign languages;
• compilation and analysis of texts about German language and German Studies using ICT.

Working language: Russian and German

End-of-Course Assessment: pass/fail, presentation of term paper and diploma thesis.

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50

E-mail: [email protected]

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Professor: PhD, assistant professor Maria Smirnova

Duration: 2 terms. 

The seminar is designed for the third-, fourth- and fifth-year students specializing in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication and studying German.

• to inform the students of the structure and rules of compiling of publicistic text;
• to learn to identify text structure on the superficial and deep level in the German-speaking publicistic discussion;
• to master specific language means.

The subject of the seminar includes studying of German vocabulary in the frame of publicistic discussion, analysis of text structure and stylistics, interpretation of the text and its pragmatic context.

Working language: Russian and German

End-of-Course Assessment: pass/fail, presentation of term paper and diploma thesis.

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50

E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Address: 31/1 Lomosovsky Prospect, Moscow, room 433

Tel.: (495) 734 02 50

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