Refresher course at the Ruhr University in Germany as part of the Erasmus + international program

Senior lecturers of the Department of Foreign Philology Isypova N.V. and Smagulova M.G. Between 12/04/2019 and 12/16/2019 took a refresher course as part of the Erasmus + international program at the Department of German Linguistics of the Institute of German Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum., under the guidance of the head of the department, Professor Dr. Karin Pittner.

During the internship, teachers attended lecture classes in the disciplines: “The History of the German Language” (Prof. Eric Fus), “Communication and Language in a Gained Foreign Language” (Prof. M. Kennen), “Ecocriticism” (Prof. Sebastian Zustek). The Ruhr University in Bochum is one of the six largest and is included in the top 10 best universities in Germany, has about 40 thousand students, has a rich library fund, numerous reading rooms. 

During their stay in Bochum, teachers familiarized themselves with the latest publications on linguistics, German studies and methods of teaching foreign languages.