Our main focus is applied linguistics, which entails the teaching and learning of foreign languages, contrastive linguistics, lexicography and corpus linguistics.
Research in this field is closely related to the main practical activities of our college: teaching foreign languages and cultures and training foreign language teachers for different education levels
This tradition covers a time span, from the 2nd millennium BC to today, and a vast geographical area, from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean region to the British Isles and northern Scandinavia.
Scholars at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures engage in multifaceted international research in European languages, European and North American literatures, literary theory, translation studies and applied linguistics.
On 1 and 2 October, the University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures hosts a conference where scholars will provide a comparative investigation into the conceptual history of the abyss and on its corresponding notions to gather insights into the meaning of depth in human cultures.
The conference will deal with cultural images of collapse that are endorsed by the extinction of biological species and disappearance of familiar biological communities.
On 1 and 2 October, the University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures hosts a conference where scholars will provide a comparative investigation into the conceptual history of the abyss and on its corresponding notions to gather insights into the meaning of depth in human cultures.