Institute faculty members are conducting research in to the problems of foreign language teaching methods in the following areas:

• Foreign language textbook theory (E.A. Pankratova);
• Cognitive competence in learning a foreign language (V.V. Voronova);
• Socio-professional competence in learning a foreign language (O.V. Grishina);
• Assessment for foreign language learners (E.A. Zharikova);
• Cross-cultural communication (N.V. Zhilenko);
• Independent study (M.V. Zalugina);
• Reading strategies (E.V. Molodkina);
• Adverbial verbs (E.N. Morozova);
• Testing methods (M.I. Myatleva).