Contact

Gabriela Půdová

+420 553 684 461

gabriela.pudova(at)fpf.slu.cz

Masarykova třída 343/37
746 01, Opava
Czech Republic

Web (in czech language): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/ucjoustavu

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Head of the Institute

Mgr. Marie Crhová, Ph.D., M.A.

Personal web (in czech): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/profil/10523

Assistant Head

Doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.

Personal web (in czech): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/profil/10678

Head of the Department of English and American Studies

Doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.

Personal web (in czech): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/profil/10678

Head of the Department of German Studies

Doc. PhDr. Gabriela Rykalová, Ph.D.

Personal web (in czech): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/profil/10377

Head of the Department of Italian and Latin Studies

Doc. PhDr. Eva Klímová, Ph.D.

Personal web (in czech): https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/profil/10794

About the Institute

The Institute of Foreign Languages consists of three departments: the Department of English and American Studies, the Department of German Studies, and the Department of Italian and Latin Studies. The structure of the institute falls further into departmental libraries, the audio-visual centre, and the computer lab.

Research activity within the Institute of Foreign Languages is conducted by the staff. With the current composition of university professors, docents, and lecturers with candidatures of science, research is of high quality and is entirely focused on language study and language acquisition. Specialised focus is proportionally divided between, on one hand, diachronic (historical) and synchronic views which are in accordance with the theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and on the other hand, structural and functional explorations of language on the whole. The staff members of the Institute of Foreign Languages are qualified teachers of English, German, Latin and Italian, and also of a number of other Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages.

Such a diversity of available languages within the Departments creates an ideal situation for linguistic comparison; that is, development of comparative linguistics. For future students, this means they can hope to achieve not only a practical perfection in a particular language with a comprehensive understanding of trends in research, but also, if they are interested, a real scientific schooling in modern linguistic study. The institute maintains close research contacts with the following institutions abroad: Prešov University (Slovakia), IDS Mannheim (Germany), Universität Würzburg (Germany), TU Dresden (Germany), and Keppler Universität Linz (Austria).