The complex research topic of the Department: “Language Units and Methodology of their Study at Secondary Schools (supervisor – Professor Raisa Khrystianinova).

The range of scientific interests of the Department members: historical word formation (Associate Professor Viktoriia Lipych), modern grammar of the Ukrainian language (Professor Raisa Khrystianinova, Associate Professors Valentyna Yunosova, Elina Oliinyk and Svitlana Hlazova), discourse studies (Associate Professors Nelia Pavlyk and Olena A. Kryzhko), the problem of cross-cultural training of bilingual pupils under conditions of multi-ethnic communication (Professor Viktoria Zahorodnova), the formation of rhetorical competence of pupils at comprehensive schools (Assistant Professor Volodymyr Nyshcheta), the formation of the culture of professional speech of non-philology students (Assistant Professor Maria Hreb).