РОССИЙСКО-АРМЯНСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ

About chair

The creation of the Chair of Theory of Language and Intercultural Communication at RAU was fostered by the specificity of teaching foreign languages to students of all RAU departments. Foreign languages have been taught at RAU has been since its establishment. Relying on the programs developed and confirmed by the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Russian Federation, the Chair has developed and implemented its own language programs for all the RAU departments. Our students are granted the opportunity to study English, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Persian and Arabic at several levels (basic, elementary, intermediate, advanced and proficient).
The staff of the Chair of Theory of Language and Intercultural Communication consists of around 70 lecturers among which PhDs and associate professors whose considerable experience lies in profound knowledge of the subject, high professionalism and the ability to work with any audience applying various approaches and methods depending on specific educational targets, including most up-to-date methodologies practiced abroad. Most lecturers of the Chair have had internships in universities in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany and other countries. The Chair collaborates closely with the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Moscow State University, Moscow State Linguistic University, three chairs of the English language, Chair of German and Chair of French of Yerevan State University as well as respective chairs of Yerevan State Linguistic University named after V. Brusov.
Lecturers of the Chair conduct intensive scientific and methodological work. The Chair regularly invites foreign colleagues to conduct lectures, workshops and training sessions at RAU as well as regularly participates in scientific and methodological conferences. The scientific component of the Chair includes work with RAU PhD students. Serious work is also done at RAU Center for Pre-University Education. There is a Language Center at the Chair of Theory of Language and Intercultural Communication. Educational programs designed by the Chair allow providing a vast range of services both for RAU students and staff and for all those who are interested in studying or mastering a foreign language.

Programs

Simonyan Armine

Doctor of Philology, Professor

(010) 21 14 72
[email protected]

Information

Education: higher.
Work experience:

1988-1999 - taught at the Department of English Philology, Romance and Germanic Faculty, Yerevan State University.
1999-2010 - Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Russian-Armenian University.
2010-2012 - Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Russian-Armenian University.
From 2012 to the present, she is the Head of the Department of Theory of Language and Intercultural Communication, Russian-Armenian University.

Specialization:
Teacher of English Language and Literature, Translator
Disciplines taught:

Discourse Analysis;
Critical Thinking Development Course;
Comparative Textual Criticism;
Theoretical Phonetics;
Political Linguistics;
Cognitive Foundations of Human Language Activity.

Scientific interests

General and applied linguistics;
Pragmatics;
Cognitive linguistics;
Political discourse;
Lingvodidactics.

List of publications

Функция сочинительных союзов в тексте. Иностранные языки. Зарубежная литература. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов. Вып. 4. Ереван, Изд-во ЕГУ , 1985, стр. 171-180.
Функционирование сочинительных союзов армянского языка в тексте (на материале противительных союзов իսկ и բայց). Вестник общественных наук АН Арм. ССР., №6, Ереван, 1985.
Функционирования противительного союза but в тексте. Иностранные языки. Зарубежная литература. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов. Вып. 5. Ереван, Изд-во ЕГУ , 1985, стр. 145-154.
Смысловые функции союзов в аспекте коммуникативной лингвистики (опыт анализа). Армянский язык и литература. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов. Вып. 5-6. Ереван, Изд-во ЕГУ, 1985.
Служебные слова как средство связности текста. Иностранные языки. Зарубежная литература. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов. Вып. 9. Ереван, Изд-во ЕГУ, 1989. Стр. 114-120.
Лексические средства связности текста. Иностранные языки. Зарубежная литература. Межвузовский сборник научных трудов. Вып. 10. Ереван, Изд-во ЕГУ, 1990. Стр. 115-124.
The Problem of Value-Loading in English. Problems of English Philology and English Language Acquisition in Armenia. Achievements and Perspectives. Abstracts. Yerevan, Publishing House, YSU, 1996, p. 47-48.
Роль сочинительных союзов в реализации текстуальной связи. Проблемы современной лингвистики и методики преподавания иностранных языков. Материалы городской научно-методической конференции. Ереван, Изд-во РАУ, 2001, стр. 21-22.
The Problem of Gender in Translation. Проблемы современной лингвистики и методики преподавания иностранных языков. Материалы городской научно-методической конференции. Ереван, Изд-во РАУ, 2001, стр. 41-42.
Language and Ideology. Проблемы современной лингвистики и методики преподавания иностранных языков, Ереван, Изд-во РАУ, 2003, стр. 1.
Английский язык для журналистов. Ереван, Изд-во РАУ, 2003-80 с. 80.
Pragmatic Interpretation of Political Communication. Актуальные вызовы современной науки. Сборник научных трудов, вып. 6, ч. 2. Переяслав-Хмельницкий, 2016, стр. 101-107.
Теаching English through the Perspective of Multilingual Education. Современные проблемы развития науки и образования - Ер. РАУ, 2017. – 164-171 с.
The Concept of Tolerance and Truth Evaluation. Россия и Запад: Диалог культур 22-23 марта 2017 года Выпуск 19 Часть II Москва, 2017, стр. 152-164.
Tolerance/Intolerance: pragmatic approach. Scientific and practical journal Philological Knowledges № 4 2017© Vědecko vydavatelské centrum «Sociosféra-CZ», Praha, 2017, pp.12-17.
The construction of national identity through political discourse. XII годичная научная конференция. Сборник научных статей. Часть 2. Ереван: Издательство РАУ, 2018, стр.504-511.
The means of cognitive information conveyance in technical translation. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 483 (2019) 012052 IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1757-899X/483/1/012052.