Tsovinar Edvard Shahiryan
26.02.2016

PhD, associate professor

shahiryancovinar35@aspu.am

PhD, associate professor/Chair of Romano-Germanic Languages and their Teaching Methods

Education
1979-1984, Yerevan State University, the faculty of Romance Germanic Languages and Literature

Academic Credentials In 2007 defended my thesis for the Ph.D. degree, specialty 13.00.02. "Methods of Teaching and Education" (English). Theme: “The development of reading skills in the professionally-oriented course of English by specially composed tests.”

Work Experience
My experience in pedagogical work is 34 years.
From 2019 up to now - Chair of Romance-Germanic languages and their teaching methodology.
2011 - 2019 - Chair of the foreign language teaching methodology.
In 2010, I received the title of associate professor.
1989 - 2011- Chair of foreign languages and their teaching methodology.
2006 - 2008 - head of the chair of foreign languages and their teaching methodology.
1985-1989 - translator of the department of scientific-technical information in the
“Electric apparatus”

Courses
Bachelor’s degree courses - Methodology of foreign language teaching.
Master’s degree courses 1.The use of modern information technologies in the process of
Teaching / learning English. 2. Alternative Pedagogical Technologies. European Language Portfolio. English for specific purposes /ESP/. Multilingual didactics.

Scope of Academic Interests
English Language, Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, Preschool, and Elementary School Teaching Methodology, the Use of Modern Information Technologies in the Process of Teaching/Learning English, Alternative Pedagogical Technologies: European Language Portfolio (ELP), Interactive Methods of Teaching English, English for Specific Purposes /ESP/, Multilingual Didactics.

Training
Participation in seminars and conferences organized by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and Macmillan Armenia JV CJSC, British Council. In 2012, I attended TOEFL courses at the American University of Armenia.
Membership Member of the British Council

Publications
I have 25 publications

1. “Mastering grammar through reading” // International Academy of Education, Yerevan, 2011, pp. 187-190

2. “Extensive and intensive reading”// Psychology and life, Zangak, 2011, pp. 24-29

3. “The verification forms of foreign language verbal communication”// ASPU, materials of the 55th conference,2014, pp. 216-221
4. “Strategies and techniques for developing scanning reading”// Scientific Manual, N 2-3 (21-22), 2014, pp. 153-161
5. “Scanning reading in teaching and learning methodology”//Armenian Studies, N 2(30) 2015, pp. 173-183

ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9210-8953 

Awards Diplomas of ASPU

Languages Armenian, Russian, English, German

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