The School offers the following degree programs:
- Modern Foreign Languages (English and a Second Foreign Language)
○ Degree Awarded: Linguist. Teacher.
○ Duration: 4 years.
○ Mode of Study: Full-time.
○ Final Qualification: Bachelor's Degree.
○ Specializations include: Literary Studies, Linguoculturology, Computational Linguistics, Orthophony, Rhetoric, among others.
○ Second foreign languages offered: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Swedish, Japanese.
- Digital Linguistics (English)
○ Degree Awarded: Linguist. Specialist in Digital Technologies.
○ Duration: 4 years.
○ Mode of Study: Full-time.
○ Final Qualification: Bachelor's Degree.
○ Specialization: Speech Technologies.
- Linguistic Education (English)
○ Degree Awarded: Teacher.
○ Duration: 3 years (for graduates of secondary specialized education institutions with a major in "Foreign Language").
○ Mode of Study: Part-time (Distance Learning).
○ Final Qualification: Bachelor's Degree.
- Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
○ Duration: 1 year.
○ Mode of Study: Full-time.
○ Final Qualification: Master's Degree.
○ Specializations include: Theory of Language, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Expertise.
Furthermore, the School provides English language training as a second foreign language to over 1,200 students from other schools within BSUFL.
The School comprises six departments:
- Department of Phonetics and English Speech Practice.
○ Research areas include: studies of spoken and written discourse, experimental and theoretical phonetic research, teaching and correction of foreign language pronunciation.
○ Core subjects: Theoretical Phonetics of English, Practical Phonetics of English, Practical Grammar of English, Practice of English Oral and Written Speech.
- Department of English History and Grammar.
○ Faculty research focuses on semantic syntax, linguodidactic innovations in language education, pragma-communicative linguistics and communication theory, semantics and text structure.
○ Core subjects: Theoretical Grammar, Functional Grammar of English, Practical Rhetoric, Fundamentals of Speech Communication, Area Studies.
- Department of English Lexicology and Stylistics.
○ The department's research interests encompass current issues in descriptive stylistics, media stylistics, discourse studies, typology and comparative linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguoculturology and cultural linguistics, psycholinguistic aspects of language study.
○ Core subjects: Stylistics, Typology of Native and Foreign Languages, Strategies of Communicative Behavior, Language for Professional Communication, Language for Specific Purposes, Area Studies.
○ The department houses a Corpus Linguistics Laboratory.
- Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
○ The department's research is multifaceted, covering a broad range of topics in lexicology, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics.
- ○ The department provides instruction in the theoretical foundations of linguistic science across all university schools. It operates a Computational Linguistics Laboratory.
- Department of Pedagogy and Psychology.
○ The department's research activities are related to the study of pedagogical and psychological foundations of teaching and upbringing.
- ○ It provides instruction in psychological and pedagogical disciplines for all university schools.
- Department of Belarusian Philology and Foreign Literature.
○ The department's research covers a wide range of literary studies: theory and history of literature, current trends in the development of the modern literary process, literary translation, and comparative literature.
○ The department is responsible for teaching the Belarusian language, Belarusian literature, and foreign (British and American) literature across all university schools.
International Conferences
- The School of English Language organizes international academic conferences:
- The annual international conference "Language in the Era of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence Development".
- The biennial international conference "FROM WORD TO DISCOURSE".
- The biennial international conference "Solovyov Readings".
