The Department of Lithuanian Language (DLL) provides language tuition services to all study programmes currently offered at VGTU. Based in the Faculty of Creative Industries, we promote a broad culture of the liberal humanities for participating academics, industry professionals and creators. We work with specialists to further develop skills in the Lithuanian language so that our students are able to play a more active, creative role in modern society.
 

Philology – Our academic staff conduct research in Philology and its related fields, including linguistics, the Lithuanian language, grammar, lexicology, syntax, foreign languages teaching, and sociolinguistics studies.

Lithuanian language terminology – We research two different, yet complementary, viewpoints in linguistic analysis – synchronic and diachronic aspects of Lithuanian language terminology. We also research how scientific language peculiarities in grammar and syntax manifest themselves. 

Language norms – DLL’s insights into how Lithuanian language norms have developed and interact are grounded in our research from a sociolinguistic perspective into student language and student attitude to language.

Foreign language teaching – We analyze the efficiency of various linguodidactic methods through the foreign language teaching of Lithuanian.

State-funded research – In 2015-2017, the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language funded DLL’s research project (‘How foreign words function in professional language’, or Svetimžodžių funkcionavimo profesinėje kalboje tyrimas). Particular emphases of the research is on the use of foreign words in the field of technologies, and the attitude of specialists towards how foreign words are used in the academic environment. 

Our research has made significant contributions to teaching and learning, including a dictionary of foreign words used in various coursebooks and educational literature, MA graduation theses, eight research papers, three articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 11 reports on the functioning of foreign words in professional language presented at international conferences held in Lithuania and Latvia.