Research Sector

Main Activities of the Sector:

• Organizing regulatory, methodological, informational, and analytical support for research projects conducted at the university
• Monitoring the quality and deadlines of research projects, ensuring that scientific reports and technical documentation comply with current regulations, and preparing proposals to implement research results
• Preparing reports and technical documentation for completed research projects, including the annual summary report on the university’s scientific activities
• Planning and managing budget estimates for research projects (funded by both public and private entities) and for organizing symposiums, conferences, seminars, and meetings at all levels using public funds.

BSUFL conducts comprehensive research in the field of language education, based on data from related sciences: pedagogy, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguodidactics, comparative linguistics, cultural studies, computer linguistics, etc.

There are two priorities in which scientific and innovative activities at developed at BSUFL:

• Philological sciences;
• Pedagogical and Psychological sciences.

Priorities of "Philological Sciences" include the following:

• Computer and Corpus linguistics;
• Sinology and Oriental studies;
• Text and Discourse linguistics;
• Semantics and Pragmatics of the dialogue organization;
• Lexical semantics;
• Phonetics;
• Functional linguistics;
• Linguacultural studies;
• Belarusian studies;
• Literary studies.

"Pedagogical and Psychological sciences" includes the following three priorities:

• Linguodidactics and methodology of foreign language teaching;
• Multicultural education and Comparative pedagogy;
• Psychology of foreign language teaching.

The most significant developments of BSUFL include:

In the framework of the research project "Development of the language and speech norms in the socio-cultural aspect (based on the material of the French language)" under the supervision of Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor E. A. Gapanovich the following was developed:

• a representative corpus of regular variants and changes in the linguistic (orthotypographic, word-forming, syntactic) and communicative norms of the French language, extracted from informational lexicographic sources (MetaNet, Usito, etc.), text corpora of various genres;
• methodological recommendations on the correct usage of the identified multi-level language and speech variants;
• lexicographic and phonetic databases of preferred high-frequency variants of language and speech units of modern French language have been posted on the multilingual website lexico.tilda.ws.

The results of the research project "Policy, practice and consequences of the Nazi economic genocide on the occupied territory of Belarus in 1941-1944 (based on the materials of captured German documents of the NARB)", carried out under the supervision of Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor S. E. Novikov, are as follows:

• creation of a data base of previously unknown captured German documents to be used for further study of the history of everyday military life in the aspect of identifying strategies for the survival of the civilian population during the pre-planned Nazi extermination policy carried out by the German occupiers in Belarus;
• use of the new data base in the investigation of the criminal case by the Prosecutor's General Office of the Republic of Belarus on the facts of genocide committed by Nazi criminals and their accomplices against the civilian population during the Great Patriotic War;
• new scientific knowledge about the Nazi economic genocide of the local civilian population was introduced into the history science of Belarus as part of the German plan of the Reich Ministry of Agriculture to completely destroy the urban population and reduce the rural population in Belarus by half;
• most important documents of the collection of German documents have been translated into Belarusian language.

Educational and methodical manual "Practice of oral and written speech of a second foreign language (English)" (authors O. A. Solovyova, D. A. Shinkarenko, A. E. Ivanov, Yu. V. Bozhenkova, Yu. V. Mishurnaya, M. V. Kravchenko, approved by the BSUFL EMA) was developed within the framework of the scientific research "Methodological system for the formation of polylingual speech" communicative competence of future linguists-teachers in the digital educational environment".

The design was carried out on the basis of the principles highlighted by Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor O. A. Solovyova: methodological expediency, digital accessibility, thematic and linguistic coherence, step-by-step mastering of oral and written communication skills by students, polymodality of digital didactic materials, congruence of their verbal and nonverbal components, interactivity, variability of forms of educational interaction, provision of automated training of students and support of the student's managed independent work, adaptability to individual opportunities and preferences, automation of control and evaluation activities. The manual is designed on the basis of the developed layout as an open dynamic modular communication system.

The thematic components of the manual have a coherent structure, polycode texts; interactive tasks and exercises are designed using the functionality of specialized online platforms and applications, including technological solutions based on artificial intelligence. All components and key sections of the manual converge within BSUFL E-learning tools framework, they can be modified and adapted to the educational needs and capabilities of future linguists-teachers, as well as changing requirements of the curriculum for the discipline being studied.

The layout for designing a distributed textbook intended for teaching and methodological support of the discipline "Practice of oral and written speech" is presented in the scientific article, which can be accessed via the link.

Access to the manual is provided to course participants via the link.