Information about the department of "Foreign Languages and Translation"

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"Foreign Languages and Translation" department is one of the largest departments of Lankaran State University. It has been operating since 1992. The department specializes in 050103-Bachelor's degree in English language teaching and 050203-Bachelor's degree in Translation (English) and master's degree in 060103-Methods and methodology of foreign language teaching. At present, the department has 22 employees. One of them is a doctor of philological sciences, professor (0.5 staff), 1 Ph.D., associate professor (1.0 staff), 7 head teachers (1.0 staff), 9 (1.0 staff) teachers, 4 (0.5 staff) teachers. The department prepares personnel for the specialties of English language teaching and Translation (English language) and carries out scientific-research works in the following three directions:

1. Translation issues,

2. Comparative typology of linguistics,

3. Modern problems of foreign language teaching.

Department specializations:

On the Bachelor's level:

1. 050103- Foreign language (English) teaching

2. 050203-Translation (English)

On Master's level:

3. 060103-Methods and methodology of foreign language teaching

On the Doctorate and dissertate

4. 5714.01- "Comparative-historical and comparative-typological linguistics"

5. 570701-"Slavic languages"

6. 5708.01 "Germanic languages"

List of main subjects taught at the department:

On the Bachelor's level:

1. Communicative phonetics of a foreign language

2. Foreign language skills-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

3. Communicative grammar of a foreign language-1, 2

4. Foreign language teaching methodology-1-2

5. Business and academic communication in a foreign language (English) 1, 2

6. Business and academic communication in a foreign language (Russian) 1, 2

7. Lexicology of a foreign language

8. Stylistics of a foreign language

9. Consecutive translation and notetaking technique

10. Country studies

11. Oral translation

12. S/f (Innovation in the General Education System)

13. S/f (press language of English)

14. S/f (International organizations)

15. S/f. (Translation of medical texts)

16. S/f. (Morphological analysis)

17. S/f. (Artistic translation)

18. S/f. (Translation)

19. S/f (Phonetic analysis)

20. S/f (Home reading in English)

21. S/f (Academic writing and reading)

22. S/f (Basics of curriculum)

On Master's level:

1. Comparative typology

2. Fundamentals of pragmatics

3. Linguistic-didactic problems of teaching foreign languages

4. Language learning materials and assessment

5. History of preparation and methodology in foreign languages

6. Modern problems of preparation in foreign languages

7. Language acquisition and discourse analysis

8. Foreign language (English)

9. S/f. Communicative language teaching

10. S/f. Semantic analysis

About the head of the department

Akbarov Hashim Lalakhan oghlu, head teacher

He was born on August 26, 1966 in Jill village of Lankaran District. In 1991, he graduated from the "English language and literature" faculty of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now Azerbaijan University of Languages) named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. He has been working at the department since 1995. In 2009 (2009/2010), Hashim Akbarov won the "Junior Faculty Development Program" (JFDP-USA) program held by the American Council of Education. He studied at the faculty of "Applied Linguistics" at the University of Kansas, USA, and "American Studies" at the University of Wyoming, USA. He was awarded certificates and won the "Grand Prix" prize. In 2002, 2003, 2004, he was a prizewinner of the "Teaching Excellence Award" (TEA-USA) program for three years and received the certificates. In 2011 and 2012, within the framework of TEMPUS (Germany, England), ESFIDIP, IANUS and ERASMUS MUNDUS (Europe) projects, he participated in training and international conferences held in the universities of Great Britain, Italy and Germany, as well as in our country. In 2012, he graduated from the International Academy at the University of Essex in Great Britain and received the certificate. In 2007/2010, he graduated from Nasimi Institute of Linguistics of ANAS (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences). In 2014/2016, he completed his doctoral studies at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasse, Romania. His articles have been published in international impact factor magazines and also in Google Scholar. He teaches the subjects such as "Lexicology of the English language", "Methodology of teaching the English language", "Basics of pragmatics", "Communicative language teaching". He is the author of 40 scientific articles and theses, 2 programs and 1 methodological aid.

E-mail address: hashim.akbar@mail.ru

About the staff of the department

Tahirov Ilham Mikayıl oghlu, doctor of philology, professor

He was born on June 8, 1963 in the village of Miyanku in Masally district. He graduated from the English Department of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now AUL) named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR with honor diploma (1986). He worked as a teacher in Hamarkand secondary school of Yardimly district (1986-1990). He was a full-time postgraduate student of Nasimi Institute of Linguistics of ANAS (1990-1993). He completed his candidate's thesis on "Azerbaijani language" specialty (1994), doctoral dissertation on "Language theory" specialty (2008), and doctor of philological sciences (2008), professor (2019). He worked as a junior researcher in the Nasimi Institute of Linguistics of ANAS in the Department of General Linguistics and Language Relations (1993-1996). He was the scientific secretary of the Institute of Linguistics named after Nasimi of ANAS (1996-2013), head of the department of ancient languages and culture of the institute (2013-2014), senior researcher in the department of ancient languages and cultures (2014-2016) and the department of Indo-European languages (2016-2019). Since 2019, he is the head of the Indo-European languages department of the Institute of Linguistics. He is the author of 7 monographs and books, 7 programs, more than 100 articles and theses dedicated to the issues of general linguistics, language theory, interlanguage relations, functional-semantic field, dialect lexicon, toponymy, language relations, research of ancient languages and cultures, linguistics, law. He is the author and editor of 8 books translated from English and Russian on the philosophy of international law and politics. Under his scientific supervising, 12 people defended their doctorate of philosophy and 2 people defended their doctorate of science. He is a member of the Scientific Council and Dissertation Council of the Institute of Linguistics named after Nasimi of ANAS, and the Humanities problem of the Council for Organization and Coordination of Scientific Research under the Presidium of ANAS. Since 2014, he has been lecturing at Lankaran State University on the subjects "Comparative typology", S/f (Semantic analysis), "Lexicology of a foreign language", "Linguo-didactic problems of teaching foreign languages" and supervising the master's and doctoral students.

E-mail address: ilham_tahir@rambler.ru

Javadova Yegana Hamdullah gızı, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor

She was born on January 4, 1966 in the city of Liman, Lankaran District. In 1986/1991, she got higher education at the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now AUL) named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. In 1996/2016, she worked as a senior lecturer at the "Foreign Languages" department at Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction. At the same time, she has been working as a 0.5 full-time teacher at Lankaran State University since 2015, and as 1.0 (full-time) teacher since September 2018. "History and methodology of foreign language training", "Language acquisition and discourse analysis", "Modern problems of foreign language training", "Country studies and intercultural communication", "Reading and speaking in a foreign language", "Foreign language skills", "Comparative typology" teaches subjects such as she is the author of 17 scientific articles.

E-mail address: yegames@mail.ru

Heydarov Rafael Kalbi oghlu, head teacher.

He was born on May 12, 1954 in Boladi village of Lankaran region. In 1975, he graduated from the "English Language" faculty of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now AUL) named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. He has been working at the department since 2001. Rafael Heydarov has participated in trainings and international conferences held in Great Britain and German universities, as well as in our country, within the framework of the TEMPUS project. He teaches the subjects "Phonetic Analysis", "Communicative Phonetics of Foreign Language", "Communicative Grammar of Foreign Language", "Methods of Teaching Foreign Language", "Morphological Analysis", "International Organizations ", "Business and Academic Communication in Foreign Language". He is the author of 15 scientific articles and 4 theses.

E-mail address: heyderovrafael@gmail.com

Maharramova Shafaq Ahmad gızı, head teacher

She was born on August 5, 1957 in the city of Lankaran. In 1975 she was admitted to the "English" faculty of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now AUL). Until 1998, she worked as an English teacher in secondary schools No. 84, 7 and 264 of Baku. Since 1998, she started working as a teacher in the "Foreign Languages" department of Azerbaijan Technical University and worked as a teacher and head teacher in this department until 2018. Since 2018, she has been working as a senior lecturer at the "Foreign Languages and Translation" department of Lankaran State University. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". She is the author of 25 scientific works dedicated to various problems of teaching foreign languages in higher schools, and co-author of the book "Azerbaijani-Turkish-Russian-English dictionary of food and catering terms", participant of a number of international and republican scientific conferences.

E-mail address: shafagmaharramova@mail.ru

Bunyadova Aynur Siyavush gızı, head teacher

She was born on August 13, 1975 in the city of Lankaran. In 1997, she graduated from Azerbaijan University of Languages. Since 1998, she has been working at the department of “Foreign Languages and Translation”. Since 2018, she has been working on the dissertation topic "Phraseological combinations with air and water components in Azerbaijani and English languages" in the specialty of "Comparative-historical comparative typological linguistics". She teaches the subjects "Foreign language skills", "Academic writing and reading", "the language of press of English", "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". She participated in training, education and international conferences held in the universities of Great Britain, Italy, France, Austria, Turkey as well as in our country within the framework of TEMPUS and ERASMUS-MUNDUS, ESFIDIP, USAID, Mevlana projects. She is the author of 20 articles and theses, 1 methodological tool and 4 programs.

E-mail address: aynour13@mail.ru

Faramazov Azer Suratullah oghlu, head teacher

He was born on March 22, 1966 in the village of Tangarud of Astara region. In 1991, he graduated from the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now AUL) named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR. From 1991 to 2003, he taught English in several secondary schools of Astara region. In 2003, he worked as a project coordinator in the school coordination program at the US organization "Project Harmony" in Shuruk village of Lankaran region. In 2004-2016, he worked as an English teacher at Astara Pedagogical College. On September 27-29, 2007, he participated in the training on "Introduction to Leadership, Influence and Organizational Building" of the American "USAID" organization, and successfully completed the course with higher scores and received the certificate. On April 3-6, 2013, he participated in the International Conference in Kiev (Ukraine). The scientific article "Forming positive motivations in teaching English to non-specialized students" was published in 2015 at the Kiev National Academy (Ukraine). He teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". He is the author of 6 scientific articles. Since 2019, he has been a doctoral student in the specialty "Germanic languages".

E-mail address: faramazovazer@mail.ru

Aliyev Ilgar Tahir oghlu, head teacher

He was born on July 5, 1981 in the city of Lankaran. In 2003, he graduated from Lankaran State University, specializing in English language and literature. In 2003/2005, he continued his studies on "Linguistics" at the Master's level of Lankaran State University. He has been working at Lankaran State University since 2014. In 2019, he was a doctoral student of LSU, specializing in "World Literature". He teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". He is the author of 2 theses and 4 scientific articles.

E-mail address: ilgar-500@mail.ru

Aghayeva Zulfiya Khanoghlan gızı, head teacher.

She was born on February 8, 1964 in Lerik district. In 1986, he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Institute of Russian Language and Literature (now BSU) named after M.F. Akhundov. She has been working at the department since 1994. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language (Russian)". She has been working as a senior teacher since 2018. Since 2022, she is the deputy of dean for educational affairs of the "Faculty of Philology and Primary Education". She actively participated in many scientific conferences, trainings and symposium. She is the author of 16 scientific articles and theses, 1 program.

E-mail address: zulfiyye.agayeva1964@mail.ru

Aliyeva Sevar Eynali gızı, teacher

She was born on November 14, 1978 in the village of Darguba of Lankaran district. In 2001, she graduated from Lankaran State University, specializing in English language and literature. In 2008, she got a master's degree in Literature of Foreign Countries at the Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology of Azerbaijan University of Languages. In 2004/2014, she worked as an inspector in the Master's Department and Curriculum and Quality Control Department at Azerbaijan University of Languages. She has been working at the department since 2016. In 2019, she was admitted to the "Comparative-historical and comparative typological" linguistics specialty of the doctoral department of LSU. She teaches the subjects "Foreign language skills", "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". She is the author of 10 scientific articles and a program.

E-mail address: sevarnurullayeva@mail.ru

Mammadova Gunay Rustam gızı, teacher

She was born on February 23, 1986 in the city of Lankaran. In 2007, she graduated from Lankaran State University in specialty of "Teaching English Language and Literature" with an honor diploma. In 2009, she graduated from the Master's Department of the Azerbaijan University of Languages with a "Foreign language (English)" specialty in the field of Linguistics. In 2013-2019, she worked as an English teacher at Azerbaijan University, and in 2019-2020 at West-Caspian University. Since 2020, she has been working at Lankaran State University. She teaches the subjects "Reading and speaking in a foreign language", "Academic writing and reading", "Business and academic communication in a foreign language (English)". She participated in several trainings and conferences held in our country. She is the author of 4 scientific articles.

E-mail address: gunay.gurbanova34@gmail.com

Mammadova Gunel Elmir gızı, teacher

She was born on August 14, 1991 in Shusha. In 2012, she graduated from the "English" faculty of Azerbaijan University of Languages. In 2013, she continued her master's education at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, specializing in "Methods and methodology of teaching primary education". In 2016, she started working as a tutor at Lankaran State University. Since September 6, 2017, she has been working as an English teacher at the "Foreign Languages and Translation" department. In 2018, she was admitted to the specialty "Comparative-historical and comparative typological linguistics" of the doctoral department of LSU. Since October 2022, she has been a student-teacher exchange specialist at the International Cooperation Department of the University and is currently the director of that department. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language". She is the author of 20 articles and theses.

E-mail address: gunel2017m@gmail.com

Manafova Tunzale Jalal gızı, teacher

She was born in 1972 in the settlement of Garmatuk in Lankaran region. In 1994, she graduated from the "French language" faculty of Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. She has been working at Lankaran State University since 2002. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language (English)". In 2019, she was admitted to the specialty "Comparative-historical and comparative typological linguistics" of the doctoral department of LSU. She is the author of 6 scientific articles.

E-mail address: tunzale.manafova.72@mail.ru

Kazimova Malahat Shahveran gızı, teacher

She was born on December 3, 1958 in the city of Lankaran. In 1981, she graduated from the "English" faculty of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR (now AUL). In1981- 1995, she worked as an English teacher at the Music College in Lankaran. In 1995, she started working as an English teacher at Lankaran State University. Now, she teaches the subject of "Business and academic communication in a foreign language -1-2 (English)". She is the author of 13 scientific articles and 2 theses.

E-mail address: k.malahat58@gmail.ru

Aghayev Mugaddin Imanverdi oghlu, teacher

He was born on January 16, 1962 in the settlement of Garmatuk of Lankaran District. In 1979, he finished Garmatuk Secondary School, and in 1988, he graduated from the Institute of Russian Language and Literature named after M.F. Akhundov with honor diploma. In 1988/1994, he worked as a teacher at Vel and Garmatuk schools of Lankaran. He has been working at Lankaran State University since 2018. He teaches the subject of "Foreign language (Russian)". In 2019, he was admitted to the "Slavic languages" specialty of the doctoral department of Lankaran State University. He is the author of 12 scientific articles.

E-mail address: mugaddin@fnwb.ru

Mirzayeva Ulviyya Alihuseyn gızı, teacher

She was born on April 22, 1982 in Baku. In 2003 she graduated from the "Russian language and literature" specialty of the bachelor level of the faculty of "Philology" in Baku Slavic University. In 2003/2005, she graduated from Baku Slavic University the master level with an honor diploma in "Methods and Methodology of Teaching Russian Language and Literature" in the field of "Philology". In 2016, she became a doctoral student at Baku Slavic University. Since 2018, she is a specialist in "Student-teacher exchange" in the "International Cooperation" department of Lankaran State University, and now she is the head of the "International language center and the coordinator of the Lankaran American corner. At the same time, she works as a teacher at the department of "Foreign languages and translation". She teaches the subject of "Business and academic communication in a foreign language (Russian)". She is the author of 5 theses and 6 articles.

E-mail address: demand_girl@mail.ru

Ibrahimova Jamila Mazahir gızı, teacher

She was born on November 23, 1992 in Turkekaran village of Lankaran district. In 2010, she was admitted to the specialty "Foreign language teaching (English)" at Lankaran State University. In 2014, she graduated from a bachelor's degree in the same specialty. In 2017-2019, she completed her master's studies with honors at Lankaran State University, specializing in "Methodics and Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching". In 2014-2021, she worked as a laboratory assistant and operator-clerk at Lankaran State University. Since 2020-2021, she has been working as an English teacher at the department of "Foreign Languages and Translation" at Lankaran State University. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language-1-2". She is the chief of the Student Scientific Society at the Faculty of "Philology and Primary Education" and the secretary of LSU Trade Union Committee. She is the author of 4 scientific articles and theses.

E-mail address: jameliaa@mail.ru

Aghazade Shafa Aliziya gızı, teacher

She was born on July 17, 1996 in the village of Veravul, Lankaran region. In 2014, she was admitted to the "Translation" specialty of Lankaran State University. In 2018, she graduated from LSU as a translator. In 2020-2022, she successfully completed her master's degree in "Methods and Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching" at LSU. In 2019, she started working as an English teacher at Lankaran Medical College. In 2022, she worked as an English teacher at the Social and Agrarian-Technological College under LSU. Since September 2022, she has been working as a teacher at Lankaran State University. She teaches the subjects "Consecutive translation and notetaking techniques", "Translation of medical texts" and "Business and academic communication in a foreign language -1-2 (English)". She participated in several scientific and practical conferences and trainings of the Republic of Azerbaijan. She is the author of 2 theses.

E-mail address: shafaagazadeh96@gmail.com

Kazimova Aysel Shamil gızı, teacher

She was born on August 19, 1992 in the village of Veravul, Lankaran region. In 2010-2014, she got a bachelor's degree in "Foreign language teaching" (English) of Lankaran State University. In 2014-2021, she worked as a laboratory assistant at the University. In 2021, she was admitted to the master's degree the speciality of "Methods and Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching" (English), and in 2023 she graduated from the university with an honor diploma. In 2021-2023, she worked as a cabinet manager at LSU. Now she is a teacher of the "Foreign languages and translation" department of LSU. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language (English)". She is the author of 2 scientific articles and theses.

E-mail address: ayselkazimova92@mail.ru

Nuri Billura Mammadali gızı, teacher

She was born on January 26, 1992 in Bilasuvar district. In 2007-2011, she studied English language teaching at Lankaran State Humanitarian College. In 2012-2016, she graduated from Lankaran State University, specializing in English language teaching. She worked as an English teacher at Lankaran Medical College in 2016-2023. In 2018-2020, she got a master's degree in Linguistics (English) at Lankaran State University. In 2022, she was admitted to the doctoral program of the Department of General Linguistics of Baku State University, specializing in "Comparative-historical and comparative typological linguistics". Currently, she is a project management specialist at the International Cooperation Department and a teacher of the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation of LSU. She teaches the subject "Business and academic communication in a foreign language -1-2 (English)". She is the author of 2 theses and 2 articles.

E-mail address: billuren@mail.ru

Guliyeva Nargiz Shaig gızı, teacher

She was born on May 9, 1996 in the settlement of Garmatuk of Lankaran district. In 2017, she graduated from LSU with a bachelor's degree in foreign language teaching (English). In 2019, she completed her master's degree in Linguistics (English language) at the same university. In 2017, she worked as an operator at LSU. In 2019, she worked as a teacher at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation. In 2022, she started working as a teacher in Lankaran Foreign Language Oriented Gymnasium. Currently, she works as an English teacher at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation of LSU. She teaches "Academic writing and reading" and "Literary translation" subjects. She is the author of 2 scientific articles and 2 theses.

E-mail: missdaffodil96@gmail.com

Safarli Aytaj Mirnazim gızı, teacher.

She was born on September 4, 1998 in the settlement of Garmatuk in Lankaran District. In 2020, she graduated from Lankaran State University with a bachelor’s degree on the specialty of Foreign Language (English) Teaching. In 2023, she completed her master’s degree on Linguistics at LSU. Since 2023, she has been working as an English teacher at the “Foreign Language and Translation” department of the University. She teaches the subjects "Business and academic communication in a foreign language" and "Lexical-syntactic analysis". She is the author of 1 article and 3 theses.

E-mail address: a.bagirzada@icloud.com

Mammadova Nafila Tarlan gızı, teacher

She was born on March 18, 1994, in the city of Shamakhi. In 2015, she graduated from the Azerbaijan University of Languages specializing in English language teaching. In 2020, she joined the master's degree program at Azerbaijan State University of Economics, Faculty of Business Management. She successfully completed her master's degree in 2022. In 2016-2022 she worked as an English teacher in the general secondary school of Gazanbatan village, named after I.Nazimov in Saatli district. Since 2023, she has been working as an English teacher at the “Foreign Language and Translation” department of Lankaran State University. She teaches “Business and academic communication in a foreign language” and “Press language of English”.

E-mail address: nafila.mammadova@outlook.com

Postal address, phone numbers, e-mail address, fax number of the department

Address of the department: 40, Ali Mammadov St., educational building No. 2, Lankaran State University, Lankaran, Azerbaijan, Az 4200.

Phone: 4-35-69, inside phone: 105

Email address: lsu.edu.az

Fax number: 5-25-88

The information about the department was presented by senior lecturer Hashim Akbarov.