Department Staff
1. Galina Bubnova
Head of the Department, Professor, Doctor of Philological Sciences, graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute
Areas of research
Theoretical and experimental phonetics, spoken text linguistics, text formation strategies in oral and written speech, intonation functions in dialogue and monologue, comparative studies at prosody level, elaboration of methodologies for computer-based pronunciation correction, methods of teaching French as a foreign language, testology.
The subject of the doctoral thesis
“Linguistic Issues of Experimental Study of the Oral Speech: a Prosodic Aspect”
Courses and lectures being conducted
'Theory and Practice of Teaching a Foreign (French) Language', 'Competence-based Approach: Appraisal of Foreign-Language Communicative Competence', 'The Theoretical Phonetics of the French Language', 'Oral Speech as a Semiotic Object', 'Comparative Prosody (the Russian and French Languages)', 'Prosodic Contrast and Interference', 'The Methods of Teaching the French Phonetics', 'The Basis of the Theory of the Second Language (French)', 'The Practical Course on Speech Communication for the 4-th and 5-th Years'
2. Nadezhda Buntman
Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute
Areas of research
Text linguistics, stylistics of punctuation, issues concerned with translating literary texts, корпусная linguistics, semantics of the literary discourse’s syntax.
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The World of the French Language (The History of the French Literature of the VII-XX Centuries)', Specialized Course and Seminar 'The Linguistics of the French Literary Text', 'The Theoretical Stylistics of the French Language'.
3. Julia Stepanuk
Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Areas of research
Text linguistics, contrasting linguistics, theory and practice of translation, lexicology and
lexicography of the French language, the grammar of French, non-verbal semiotics, testology
The subject of the PhD thesis
'The Rhythmic Organization of Prosaic Text and its Rendering in Translation (in the case of Russian and French Languages)'
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of French', 'The Practical French Grammar', 'The Written Rendering of Oral texts', the teaching module 'The French Discourse: Theoretical and Practical Aspects', the specialized course and seminar 'Comparative Lexicology of the French and Russian Languages', 'The Theory of French', the teaching module 'Lexicology', 'General and Specific Lexicography'
4. Maria Anninskaya (Ivanova-Anninskaya)
Lecturer, graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute, member of the Moscow Union of Writers, member of the Guild of Literary Translators
Areas of research
Translation of French and Italian literature, issues concerned with translation of literary texts from and into French, text stylistics, comparison of the Russian and French languages, the French fine arts.
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of French', 'Work with text: summarization, annotation, synthesis', The world of the Studied language', 'The History of the French Art from Pre-Historic Times to the 20th Century', 'Translation'
5. Katerina Garcia
Lecturer, graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute
Areas of research
Study of various methods of teaching foreign languages
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of the French Oral and Written Speech'
6. Galina Kouznetsova
Lecturer, graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute
Areas of research
Reading of the literary text, literary text stylistics, teaching of studying literary texts
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of French', 'The World of the French Language – Literature'
7. Andrey Kalinin
Lecturer graduate of the Moris Torez Moscow Foreign Languages Institute
Areas of research
Translation as a branch of linguistics, linguistics of the oral and written text, theoretical and experimental phonetics
Courses and lectures being conducted
‘The World of the French Language' (1st and 2nd languages), 'The Practical Course of Translation for the 1st and 2nd Foreign Languages (French)','The Theory of Translation (the French Language)', the specialized course 'Oral Translation')
8. Irina Morozova
Senior Lecturer, graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Tula State Pedagogical University
Areas of research
The methods of teaching foreign languages, psycho-linguistics, comparative study of the mother and foreign languages.
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of French: summarization, annotation, synthesis', 'The Theory and Practice of Teaching Foreign Languages', 'The World of French', the optional course 'The European Requirements for the Command of Foreign Languages within the Context of the Russian Methodological School'
9. Galina Shumilova
Senior Lecturer, graduate of the Philological Faculty of Lomonossov State University
Areas of research
Translation as a branch of linguistics, text linguistics
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course on Oral Communication for the 4th and 5th Years', 'The Grammar of French', 'The Practical Course on Translation for the 1st and 2nd Foreign Languages (French)', 'The Theory of Translation (French)', 'The Grammatical Aspects of Translation', the specialized course 'Text Linguistics and Translation'
10. Irina Tsypina
Lecturer, graduate of the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov State University
Areas of research
The methods for correcting pronunciation when speaking and singing, phonostylistics of the French language
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical French Phonetics', 'The Practical Course of French'
11. Olga Denisova
Lecturer, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Areas of research
The methods of teaching foreign languages, reading and processing written text, cognitive linguistics, psychology, textology, comparative lexicology
The subject of the post-graduate thesis
'Effective Reading: visual and semantic processing during reading (training modules, French as foreign language, level A2) '
Courses and lectures being conducted
'The Practical Course of French', 'Comprehension of Oral/Written Speech', ''The Practical Course of French: summarization, annotation, synthesis'
12. Elena Ratnikova
Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, graduate the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Areas of research
The methods of teaching foreign languages, theory and practice of oral translation, theoretical and experimental phonetics, study of orally produced speech, linguosynergetics.
The subject of the post-graduate thesis
'Prosodic organization of orally produced speech (an experimental phonetics study based on the data from radio and television interviews)
Courses and lectures being conducted
'World of the French Language (History of France)', 'Comprehension of Oral Speech', 'The Practical Course of French'.
Contact Information
The Department of the French Language of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies
Postal address: MSU, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Russia, 119192, Moscow, 31/1, Lomonosovsky Prospekt, room 522-523
Telephone: 8 (499) 726 56 67