Slavic Faculty
Ashot Vardanyan
Instructor of Russian Language
635 Phillips Hall - 319.335.0169
Email: ashot-vardanyan@uiowa.edu
DEGREES GAINED:
- 1975-1980. BA – Honors Degree: Teacher of Russian Language and Literature and English Language; Brussov Institute of Foreign Languages; Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2002-2005. MAT: Teacher of Russian as a Foreign Language: University of Iowa College of Education Graduate School, Iowa City, Iowa.
- 2005-2006. MAT – ESL Endorsement: Teacher of English as a Second Language: University of Iowa College of Education Graduate School.
CLASSES TAUGHT:
- 1982-2001. Russian Language, Russian Literature, and English Language –School №5 in Artashat, School №33 and College Quantum in Yerevan, Armenia.
- 2002-2008. First Year Russian, Second Year Russian (intensive and regular), Fourth Year Russian, Special Readings, Beginning Russian Composition and Conversation, Russian Translation Workshop, and Russian for Adult Learners (Conversational Russian): University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
- 2005, 2006. Russian Readings from Contemporary Life and Conversation and Composition: Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
- 2005. ESL: Middle School in Columbus Junction, Iowa.
- 2007. ESL Communications 2 and ESL Composition 3: Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
UNIQUENESS:
- Trilingual + basics of Spanish + awareness of many other languages.
- Drive with two legs!
CV (in word)
In my pedagogical activities, I not only teach but also draw parallels within and between the languages I know fluently and am aware of. I am amazed at how they act and I want to show the levers of that mechanism to my students: it is my conviction that languages, as well as other sciences, should be learned consciously. However, this does not mean that grammar occupies me entirely. Being a teacher of Russian and English, I love to teach them for communication interwoven with the culture of the target language. This is what I do in teaching the course of Russian for adults and First Year Russian. I also provide translation and interpretation services at the University, local community, and elsewhere. Given my long expertise in that combined sphere of linguistics and social work as well as the fact that I am also a teacher of English, I have prepared the outline of a class on the art of rendering. I hope to teach this course in which I intend to show the specific features of Russian and English, their commonalities and differences, and the ways of transferring ideas from one language to the other by taking into account sociolinguistic settings and, hence, by the means of the target language.
- Dept. of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- 111 Phillips Hall
- The University of Iowa
- Iowa City, IA 52242
- Contact Information:
- asian-slavic@uiowa.edu
- (Phone) 319-335-2151
- (Fax) 319-353-2207
