Education: Yerevan State University, Romano-Germanic languages, 1974-1979.
Work experience: 1980-present - Senior researcher at the Institute of Literature named after M. Abeghyan of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
1999-present - Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University, Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Intercultural Communication, Associate Professor.
Specialization: Romano-Germanic languages ​​and literature (English). Philologist, teacher, translator.

Disciplines taught:

Workshop on the culture of speech communication;
Practical course of the first foreign language;
English for academic purposes;
Critical thinking;
Theoretical grammar of the English language;
Stylistics;
Sociolinguistics;
Fundamentals of translation of socio-political texts (linguistics, master's degree).

Advanced training: 15.02.2005- 30.04.2005 - Advanced training in the specialty "English Philology"; Yerevan State University. 
February 7-8, 2011 - Master class / teacher training sessions entitled as "New ELT Courses and Teaching Methodology in Armenia"; Manmar CJSC PH, Yerevan, RA
April 19-21, 2011 - Teacher training sessions entitled as "New Opportunities in ELT with Cambridge University Press"; Manmar PH CJSC, Yerevan, RA
April 5-6, 2012 - Teacher Training sessions; Manmar CJSC, Yerevan, RA
October 10-13, 2014 - IELTS teacher-training sessions; British Council   Armenia November 18-20, 2016 – Annual Professional Development Workshop Series delivered by Scott Thornbury, British Council Armenia November 10-12, 2017 - Annual Professional Development Event delivered by Jeremy Harmer, British Council Armenia.
October 5-7, 2018 - Annual Professional Development Event delivered by Penny Ur, British Council Armenia.
March 26-27, 2018 - Pearson Methodology Conference for Teachers of English. Manmar.
Sessions: Vaugham Jones: “All the words you need”, b) “Bring the learning into focus”;
Phil Warwick: “Clicking CLIL into the classroom”, d) “Let’s get them talking; placing emphasis on production.”
February through March, 2019 - Certificate of Achievement for participation in the “Course on Technology and Media” organized by RAU and the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan.
2 Essential Tools for 4 Language Skills
Event by Anna Arakelyan and AELTA /Armenian English Language Teachers’ Association/ Saturday, May 9, 2020.