Date of birth: 14/02/1982
The field of scientific interests:
Comparative linguistics
Theoretical grammar
Intercultural communications
English for specific purposes
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
WORK EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder, Official Representative of LITHOZ GmbH in Armenia "3D Alliance Group" LLC [ 2023- present]
Founder of the Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication Club of ISEC NAS RA [ 2017-present]
Head of the Chair of Foreign Languages, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences [ 2016-present ]
Chairman of the Foreign Language Professional Qualification Examination Commission, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences [2016-present]
ESP syllabus coordinator, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences [2015 – 2016]
Chief specialist of QA Department, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences [ 2016 ]
Chief specialist of the Ed. Department, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences [ 2011 ]
Leading specialist of the Ed. department; ESP Lecturer, International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academay of Sciences [ 2010 – 2011 ]
Office-manager at Forest's Recovery and Development Fund of the RA, The Government of Armenia [ 2004 – 2009 ]
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BA of Philology in the field of ''English Language and Literature''
Yerevan State University, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology [ 1998 – 2002 ]
MA of Philology in the field of 'English Language''
Yerevan State University, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology [ 2002 – 2004 ]
Qualification of Financier in the field of Finances
State Agricultural College named after Academician G. Aghajanyan, Faculty of Finances and Credit [ 2011 – 2015]
MA of Management in the field of 'Tourism Management'
International Scientific-Educational Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the RA [ 2016 – 2018]
Degree of Associate Professor in Philology [ 2017 ]
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Philology [ 2015 ]
Certificate/ Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA), Cambridge [ 2017]
Certificate/Methapragmatics
Chair of Linguistics , ISEC NAS RA [ 2024 ]
Certificate/Course on school Management
German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD), Tbilisi, Georgia [ 2024 ]
Teaching for Success - teacher and educator development conference
British Council [ 2024 ]
"Enhancing Soft Skills and Communication through English in the Academic Environment"
Department of Foreign Languages of ISEC NAS RA [ 2023 ]
"Teaching Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment: Enhancing Skills through Cross-Cultural Perspectives"
Dr. Taguhi Sahakyan Leeds University, UK [ 2023 ]
Certificate/"Professional Development Workshop:Modern Methods for Developing Communication Skills in Academic and Business Settings"
Delta certified trainer PhD Lilit Bekaryan [ 2022 ]
"English in the Academic Environment: Cultivating Soft Skills, Communication and Intercultural Understanding”
Department of Foreign Languages of ISEC NAS RA [ 2021 ]
Certificate/1st Annual English Teacher and Educator Development Conference
British Council [ 2019 ]
Certificate/Annual Professional Development Event Delivered by Penny Ur
British Council [ 2018 ]
Certificate/Annual Professional Development Event Delivered by Jeremy Harmer
British Council [ 2017 ]
Certificate/Development of intra-university quality assurance system [ 2017 ]
Certificate/"Archetypes in the Work of Practical Psychotherapy" [ 2016 ]
Certificate/"Organizing Further Education in Form of Distance Learning at ISEC NAS RA" by Anna Maria Tammaro [ 2014 ]
Certificate/"Application of information technologies in the teaching process" [ 2014 ]
Certificate/Problems and functions of internal quality assurance system; Guarantees of quality assurance of professional education [ 2014 ]
Certificate/Modern technologies and methods of teaching [ 2014 ]
PROJECTS
[2024]
EU4Dialogue: Improving exchanges across the divide through education and culture (Component 3), grant program funded by the European Union. Organizing training on the topic of “Professional and Soft Skills Development for the Displaced Armenians"
[ 2022 ]
The ARMDOCT project, Teramo Uiversity,Italy Reforming Doctoral Education (DE) in Armenia in line with the Salzburg Principles. Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
[ 20/06/2014 – 27/06/2014 ]
Studying the experience of education quality assurance, benchmarking, Charles University Prague
[ 10/06/2011 – 17/06/2011 ]
European Union Tempus TASIS: New Master's Curriculum, Parma University, Italy Study visit within the framework of the "Education Quality Assurance" project
[ 18/06/2011 – 25/06/2011 ]
European Union Tempus TASIS: New Master's Curriculum, London, Middlesex University Study visit within the framework of the "Education Quality Assurance" project.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
[ 2024 ] Plekhanov University of Economics, Moscow, online
International Scientific and Practical Conference “Language Education in the Context of Modernizing Humanities”, ''Learning strategy instruction based on student' learning styles'', Plenary session
[2024] International Conference on Current Challenges and Prospects for Development of Research Education, “Techniques of Translating Fiction (Based on Hovhannes Tumanyan’s ‘Selected Works’)”
[ 2024 ] International Conference on Pedagogical Discourse in the Context of Intercultural Communication “Teaching Expressive Speech Acts through Emotional-Attitudinal Expressions” [ 2023]
[ 2023 ] International Conference on Problems of Competitive Education and Science in a Changing World, “Types of Predicates in the English Sentence”
[ 2022 ] International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Research. “Current Issues and Achievements Increasing efficiency in Foreign Language Education on the Example of ISEC NAS RA English Club”
[ 2018 ] International Conference on Innovative Opportunities and Challenges in the Modern World, “Immigration of Syrian-Armenians to Armenia: Intercultural Peculiarities and Integration Issues”
[ 2014 ] Second International Congress on Armenian Studies: Armenian Studies and the Challenges of Modern Times. “Morphological-Semantic Correlation of Emotional-Attitudinal Expressions in Armenian and English”
[ 2013 ] Republican Conference dedicated to professor Gurgen Khachatryan's 60th birthday. “The Problem of Part-of-Speech Functions of Emotional-Attitudinal Expressions in Armenian”
[ 2012 ] Second Republican Conference on Young Linguists' Second Republican Conference Reports, “Word as the Main Unit Containing Emotional-Evaluative Component of Communication”
LANGUAGES
Armenian, English, Spanish, Russian
MAIN TEACHING FIELDS
English for International Relations, Legal English, English for Tourism Management, English for Linguistics, Basics of Intercultural Communication