Education

The Department provides foreign language training on the issues of law enforcement and public administration. The training is provided for students of Bachelor and Master study programmes. The students may choose from English, German and Russian. The Department actively cooperates with various departments of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic for the purpose of testing and evaluating police officers’ communicative competence. The Department also offers language training in highly specialised ESP courses (for example courses for police attachés, for police officers to be deployed in peacekeeping missions, foreign unit etc.). The Department undertakes different tasks assigned by the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic and participates in translating, interpreting and proofreading.

Research

Research and publication activities are mainly aimed at the issues concerning the content, methodology and organization of academic and professional foreign language training designed for police officers and other employees of state administration.

1. Research task No. 165 Language Modules for Selected Police Services, 2011-2016

Outcomes:

• e-learning modules for traffic police, public order police, border and alien police, investigation, penal law, crisis management in English or German;
• crisis management terminological dictionary for students of the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava;
• e-learning and its implementation in ESP courses for selected police services;
• Deutsch im Beruf – Polizei (a German textbook);
• Slovak-English and English-Slovak Dictionary for Public Order Police and Traffic Police;

2. European Label for Languages

The Foreign Languages Department received the EUROPEAN LANGUAGES LABEL AWARD in 2015. The competition was organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. It is an initiative of the European Commission focused on the promotion of language education. The main goal is to draw attention to and acknowledge innovative initiatives in language education at all levels and to support, use and spread the results of successful initiatives at the national as well as European level and provide the examples of best practice.

3. Participation in the research assignment undertaken by the Department of Public Law of the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava – Protection of Human Rights in Activities of the Police Force (Research Assignment No. 204)

Slovak-English and English-Slovak Terminology Dictionary containing the terminology in the area of human rights will be an outcome of the research assignment.

4. Language Training Standardization of Border and Alien Police in the European Union, 2010-2013

Outcomes:

•  Air Border – Slovak-English and English-Slovak Dictionary;
• Language Training Standardization of Border and Alien Police in the EU;
• Basic English for Border Guards at Airports (A2 level);
• Mid-Level English for Border Guards at Airports (B2 level).