General information

Head of the department: Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Efendiev Israfil Ismailovich
Address: Russian Federation, Dagestan, Makhachkala, Lenin Square, 1, Dagestan State Medical Academy.

Postcode: 367000. 
Telephone: 8 (8722) 63-22-02; 8-988-309-56-47
E-mail: israf@yandex.ru

Responsible for the website: Effendiev I.I.

The department’s website: dgmu-rus.ru

Staff

 The staff of the department employs of 9 teachers, 2 senior laboratory assistants and a preparator. There are 2 Doctors of sciences, professors working at the department (I.I. Effendiev and M.I. Magomedov), 3 Candidates of Sciences, Associate Professors (M. X Shakhova, B. B. Mutarov, Sh. A. Agayeva) 2 Candidate of Sciences, Assistants (A. T. Aliyeva, G. A. Magomedova), 2 senior lecturers (G. M. Dalgat, D. A. Akayeva).

History

The Department of Russian Language was established in August 1990. From 1990 to 2000, it was headed by Doctor of Philology, Professor E. M. Sheikhov. From 2000 to 2005, the head of the department was Doctor of Philology, Professor M. I. Magomedov. From 2006 to the present, the department is headed by Doctor of Philology, Professor I. I. Efendiyev. Russian Language Department and the Department of the Russian Language of the Preparatory Faculty were merged in September 1999.

Training

The department trains students of the preparatory department for foreign citizens and foreign students of the I-V courses of medical and dental faculties. In the preparatory department, classes are held at a rate of 36 hours per week (initial stage) to 18 hours per week (final stage). In the I-II courses, classes in groups are held at the rate of 6 hours per week, in the third year – 4 hours a week, in the IV-V courses – 2 hours a week. The deep knowledge test, verbal skills formation is carried out in the form of current, intermediate and final control.
The current control is carried out at each lesson in the form of an oral survey or written tasks, exercises and is aimed at proficiency level check of the mastered language material or the degree of formation of private skills. The results of the current control are recorded in the form of grades in the teacher’s journal, issued at each lesson.

Intermediate control is provided by the calendar and thematic plans of the department, it is carried out by the end of the cycle of classes devoted to any topic, in the form of a control work. It is designed to check the level of formation of private skills and abilities on the language material that is included in this cycle (according to the plans-every sixth week).

The final control is carried out at the end of the semester in the form of a credit or exam in the third year (6th semester). The examination and tests are held in three stages. The first stage is written, the second and the third are oral. By means of final control, first of all, the formation of more general speech skills and skills is checked. Tests and examinations are held in two procedures: in the form of pre-examination (pre-test) control written works and in the form of an oral survey. The department compiled samples of final controls for each semester, also compiled a fund of control materials of the department, which includes texts in the specialty and texts of the literary and artistic nature of the required volume and level of difficulty, which is used in the process of final control.

Russian is taught in the IV-V courses in the special course “Methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language”, recommended by the Ministry of Higher Education as the most priority form of Russian language classes for foreign students of senior courses. This special course is taught by Professors Efendiev I. I. and Magomedov M. I., who have passed the corresponding specialization at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language.

The Department of Russian Language closely cooperates with the Department of General Education disciplines of the Medical Academy. Together with this department, a program for educational work at the preparatory department has been developed, the curriculum is coordinated, mutual visits to exams are organized, cultural events are held jointly.

The department has 9 classrooms, a methodical office equipped with educational and methodological, artistic, regional literature and periodicals, a computer class (9 computers, a TV, an audio and video recorder, a CD-video player).

Science

Research area:

• Russian as a foreign language;
• psychological, educational, sociocultural and linguistic adaptation of foreign students to study at the Russian medical university;
• Caucasian.

Research findings:
Since the foundation, 4 doctoral and 5 candidate theses have been defended at the department. The department staff has published more than 300 research papers on the problems of general, Russian and Caucasian linguistics; more than three dozen teaching aids have been published, three of them are of a monographic nature, including the “Textbook of the Russian language for foreign students of the I-III courses of medical universities” (M. I. Magomedov), recommended by the Advisory and Coordinating Council for International Activities of Medical and Pharmaceutical Universities of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation as a textbook.
Teachers of the department constantly participate in the work of republican, all-Russian and international conferences and symposiums. The department cooperates with the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology named after Max Planck (Germany) and the Department of Caucasian Languages of Leiden University (Holland), the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the Institute of Language, Literature and Art named after G. Tsadasa of the Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as with all philological departments of universities of the republic.

Resources

Manuals published by teachers of the department.

Russian language manual (for students and students of the DMI preparatory department). Makhachkala, 1990.

Getting ready for a biology lecture (Russian language methodical materials for foreign students studying at the preparatory faculty). Makhachkala, 1990.

Surgical diseases (Methodological guidelines on the Russian language for foreign students based on texts on surgery). Makhachkala, 1991.

The image of a doctor in the works of A. P. Chekhov (Educational tasks in the Russian language for foreign students of the 2nd and 3rd courses). Makhachkala, 1992.

Latin-Arabic dictionary of anatomical terms. Part I. Osteoology, Artrology, Myology. Makhachkala, 1992.

Guidelines on Russian for foreign students on the material of texts on dentistry. Makhachkala, 1994.

Traumatology and Orthopedics (Methodical instructions in Russian for foreign students on the material of texts on traumatology and orthopedics), 1995.

A manual in Russian for I-III Arab students. Makhachkala, 1995.

A collection of grammar assignments in Russian for international students. Makhachkala, 1997.

Training assignments for practical classes in Russian on the material of texts on pathological anatomy (for foreign students of the third year of the medical academy). Makhachkala, 1997.

Texts for reading and speech development. Makhachkala, 1997.

Methodological guidelines on the Russian language for foreign students of the 1st year of the DSMA based on the materials of texts on anatomy. Makhachkala, 1997.

Surgical diseases (Methodological guidelines on the Russian language for foreign students based on texts on surgery). Part II. Makhachkala, 1997.

Dictionary of the most commonly used medical terms (for foreign students). Makhachkala, 1997.

Methodological guidelines for the Russian language (based on the material of biology texts for foreign students). Makhachkala, 1997.

Educational tasks for practical classes in the Russian language based on the material of regional studies texts (for foreign students of the I and II courses of the medical Academy). Makhachkala, 1998.

Texts for independent reading (scientific style of speech). Makhachkala, 1998.

Methodological guidelines on the Russian language (for foreign students of 2-3 courses). Makhachkala, 1998.

Methodological development in the Russian language for students of the 2nd year of the State Medical Academy (based on the materials of texts on medicine). Makhachkala, 1998.

Training exercises in Russian on the biology material (for DSMA foreign students). Makhachkala, 1998.

A Russian language book for 1-3 courses foreign students of medical universities. Makhachkala, 1998.

Russian language manual for foreign medical students. Makhachkala, 1999.

Manual for oral and written speech mastering (for foreign students I-III courses of medical school). Makhachkala, 1999.

Texts on pathological anatomy (Methodical instructions on Russian language for foreign students of the third year of DSMA). Makhachkala, 2000.

Guidelines for practical exercises in Russian for foreign students on the material of texts on pathological anatomy. Makhachkala, 2001.

Guidelines for practical lessons in Russian on the materials of the lessons of the textbook “Start 1-2.” Makhachkala, 2003.

Training assignments in Russian on the material of non-fiction medical texts (for foreign students of I-III courses of DSMA). Makhachkala, 2003.

Training manuals in Russian on the material of medical texts (for foreign students). Makhachkala, 2003.

Training assignments on anatomy and biology (Texts to “Lecture on reading for foreign students of medical and pharmaceutical universities” by L.G. Samartseva, T.G. Chernyakevich). Makhachkala, 2004.

A manual on the study of the basics of general and pathophysiology at the Department of Russian Language for International Students (Teaching and Methodical Recommendations). Makhachkala, 2004.

Russian cases in exercises and tables (training manuals for international students of the preparatory department). Makhachkala, 2004.

The concise thematic Russian-Latin-Anglo-Arabic dictionary (on the material of texts on internal diseases for foreign students). Makhachkala, 2004.

Anglo-Russian dictionary of medical abbreviations. Makhachkala, 2006.

Training manual on Russian literature (for international students). Makhachkala, 2006.

Training manual on summary note-taking for foreign students of the preparatory department. Makhachkala, 2007.

Training tasks on speaking skills on the biology material (for students of the preparatory department of the DSMA). Makhachkala, 2009.

How to take notes of a lecture (methodical instructions on Russian for students of the preparatory department of the DSMA). Makhachkala, 2011.

Supplementary reading set (manual on Russian as a foreign language for students of the preparatory department). Makhachkala, 2012.

A manual for practical classes in Russian. Makhachkala, 2015.