Business Russian Language for State Employees

Elena Vadimovna Kosareva
Educational designer and academic advisor of the program. Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Its Teaching Methods of the Philological Faculty of SPbU.

— A communicative and speech portrait of a modern state employee.
— An e-mail as a form of business communication.
— Language norms and a modern business text.
— Verbal official business communication and its varieties.
— State employees’ business written speech.
— Techniques of effective business communication.
— Etiquette of telephone conversations

In a short period of time trainees will be able to improve their proficiency in the modern business Russian, as well as acquire the necessary knowledge about the norms of modern Russian as an official language, the culture of a business language, and the official business style of writing.

According to the results of training, a trainee has to be able to:
— apply acquired knowledge in conditions of direct professionally significant business communications;
— analyze the process of business communication and choose methods to improve its efficiency;
— compose official business texts;
— draw up official business documents taking into account norms and requirements;
— identify typical errors in a business text, edit business documents.