KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

The Chair was renamed in the mid-1930s, after splitting from the joint Chair of Literatures of the Faculty of Philology (in the 1930s) and the Chair of Russian Literature (a few years later).

Famous scientists have worked in the Chair, among them A. Grigoryan, an academician of the Academician National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA), Professors P. Sahakyan, E. Nuralov, K. Matinyan, T. Simyan and many others.

The Chair actively participates in different scientific and educational events. It has received many diplomas and letters of appreciation.

Since 2007, the Chair has been organizing conferences and publishing materials. To date, 14 interuniversity conferences have been held at the Chair which have been attended by representatives of different chairs of ASPU, YSU, V. Brusov State University, Institute of Literature after M. Abeghyan,as well as degree seekers and MA students of ASPU. The materials of the conferences (over 114 articles) are available in the yearbooks of the Chair.

The Chair of Russian Language its Teaching Methods, established in 1922, is one of the leading centers to provide teaching of Russian language in Armenia.

The Chair carries out research in different directions, including theoretical, methodological and lexicographical research and textbook compiling.

In 2017, ASPU and Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (Moscow, Russia) signed a memorandum of cooperation which further contributes to the teaching of Russian language at ASPU, testing, improvement of professional qualifications, and training of specialists.

Within the framework of the agreement, joint Olympiads and different competitions aimed at improving knowledge of Russian language literature and culture are organized at the Chair.

The Chair has its website:https://kafrusagpu.ru.gg/.

The Chair was established in the 2000-2001 academic year and was meant to provide teaching of foreign languages in the Faculty of Russian Philology and Romance and Germanic Languages.

The Chair was formerly called Chair of Foreign Languages and their Teaching Methods. In 2012, the Chair was renamed Chair of English Language Teaching and in 2017 - Chair of Teaching Foreign Languages.

Twenty lecturers, including three Candidates of Science/Associate Professors, two Candidates of Science/Lecturers and four degree seekers work in the Chair.

The Chair carries out large-scale scientific and methodological research, including the main provisions of modern methodology, requirements and strategies for foreign language teaching.

Carrying out methodological activity in all the ten faculties of the University, the lecturers of the Chair use the new teaching techniques, methods and approaches, try to localize the best practices, and solve the problems set before the Chair.