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Shushanik H. Paronyan
Head of Chair | Chair of English for Cross-Cultural Communication Education
1986-1989 Post-graduate student, Leningrad (Sanct Peterburg) State University, Russia, Department of English Philology 1984-1986 Research Internship at Leningrad (Sanct Peterburg) State University, Russia, Department of English Philology 1973-1978 Romance and Germanic Philology Department, English language and Literature, YSU, Diploma of Higher Education. Graduation with Distinction 1963-1973 School N 78, Yerevan Academic degrees and titles 2014 Professor, YSU, Department of English for Cross-Cultural Communication 2010 Doctor of Philological Sciences Degree, YSU 2004 Associate Professor, Department of English Philology, YSU 1989 Candidate of Philology Degree, Leningrad (Sanct Peterburg) State University, Russia Professional experience 2012 – present Head of Chair/ Chair of English for Cross-Cultural Communication 1993-2011 Department of English Philology, YSU, associate professor 1989-1993 Department of English Philology, YSU, lecturer 1978-1980 Senior researcher at the laboratory of Engineering Psychology, Yerevan State University Academic courses Pragmatics, History of English, Theory and Practice of Business Communication Culture, Cross-Cultural Cognitive Linguistics, Persuasion Culture and Business Communication, Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Academic English Scale of professional interests Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmalinguistics, EAP Languages English and Russian (fluent), German (conversational) Professional membership 2008-2020 Member of the pre-PhD defense Romance and Germanic Philology examination board 2008-2019 Member of the Specialized Commission in Romance and Germanic Philology Specialty 2003-present Member of Romance and Germanic Philology Department Academic Council, YSU 2005–2011 Head of Method Council, Romance and Germanic Philology Department Academic Council, YSU Grants and fellowships 2018– Norwegian "Centre for International Cooperation in Education>> Fund, member of the project "Intercultural Communication in Academic Settings in South Caucasus Countries and Norway" 2015– present, "Laboratory of Antiarmenian Propaganda Discourse Research", researcher of the project funded by State Committee of Science of RA 2015- "Forced Migrations: The Case of Armenia", seminars for PhD students, project funded by Bergamo university, Italy 2003– 2006 "Discourse and Culture", researcher of the project funded by State Committee of Science of RA Purticipation in conferences 2009 Foreign Languages and Literature, International Conference, Yerevan 2014 Promoting Independent Learning, International Conference, Yerevan 2015 Improving Intercultural Communication Instruction in the EFL Classroom, International Conference, Yerevan 2016 AASE International Conference, Yerevan 2017 Exploring the Cultural Iceberg, International Conference, Yerevan 2018 Exploring the Cultural Iceberg, International Conference, Yerevan 2019 Language, Culture and Communication, International Conference, Yerevan |