Faculty of Linguistics

The Faculty of Linguistics in EREA was established in 2006. The faculty offers high quality education based on European standards both for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs.

Specialization

031100 Bachelor in Linguistics

031200 MA in Linguistics

Bachelor Program 031100 provides an opportunity to gain profound knowledge in the following fields:

• General Linguistics
• Comparative Typology of Languages
• Theory of Translation
• Intercultural Communication
• Psychology

Educational Academic Programs

Bachelor Program

031100 Bachelor in Linguistics

The study for Bachelor Program presumes a-four-year (eight-term) education.

Educational and pre-diploma internships are held (which last four weeks) with the aim of enhancing skills for using practical and theoretical knowledge. The main requirements set up for educational and pre-diploma internships are:

• to combine theoretical knowledge and practical skills
• to develop skills for individual and team work
• to be able to analyze and evaluate the completed work
• to be able to submit a written or oral report on the work

To graduate with Bachelor in Linguistics students must have 241 credits (30 credits for each term, 60 credits for each academic year).

Peculiarities of Instructional Process

The instructional process at the faculty of Linguistics is held through lectures, practical classes and additional activities.

To form groups for practical classes with A, B, C levels, students’ proficiency of the first and second foreign languages are taken into account.

At the end of each term the students’ knowledge is tested and groups wilt A, B, C levels will be reformed. To conform the level of acquisition of the main disciplines, such as writing, speaking, English phonology, English grammar, lexis, criteria have been worked out which correspond to international levels C1, C2, etc.

The Faculty of Linguistics assesses the students’ knowledge depending on their:

1. Attendance and participation in class.
2. Current testing of individual assignments required by the curriculum
3. Performance-related scores
4. A midterm exam which is added to the pre-final score to form the final grade

The student’s acquisition of relevant professional knowledge, abilities and skills presumed for the bachelor’s degree are confirmed by a final term paper and a specialized (state) exam.

The educational program of the bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Linguistics is targeted at the solution of the following issues concerning the professional domain.

• Teaching the language essence, the main criteria of its application and development, the common phonetic, lexical, semantic and syntactic peculiarities of all languages, the main principles of language classification.
• Developing student’s pronunciation skills by improving their incorrect English sounds.
• Studying the semantic structure of words, their lexico-semantic relations, ways and patterns of word formation in Armenian and in English, English and Armenian word stock peculiarities.
• Studying lingo stylistic systems, speech patterns and functional style types.
• Cascading the knowledge in the history of translation, its principles, and types.
• Providing profound knowledge of the UK and the USA culture.
• Acquiring linguistic communicative skills and communication facilitating awareness in the language-cultural context.

In the educational process the students acquire profound deep knowledge and skills which help them to:

• Create a fluent, well-structured speech; be able to use conjunctions, conjunctive means and text structures.
• Choose appropriate expressions for starting or continuing a speech, provide the interlocutor with an adequate and logical response.
• master idiomatic and colloquial expressions and have abundant vocabulary which provides effortless expressions of ideas.
• Be well-informed about the English-Armenian word-stock peculiarities.
• Be skilled in analyzing the semantic and lexical structures of English and Armenian words.
• Master the main issues of English syntax.
• Do lingo stylistic analyses of English texts.
• Have the knowledge of the native countries concerning materialistic and spiritual cultures, legal systems and religious diversity.
• Estimate the role and importance of English in the European globalization process.

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