Yelena Yerznkyan

Prof. Dr. Yelena Yerznkyan heads the English Language Department at Yerevan State University (Armenia) and the Research Council for awarding scientific degrees in Romance and Germanic Languages. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal «Foreign Languages in Higher Education», the author of highly ranked monographs in pragmasemantics and cognitive linguistics, Armenian-English, English-Armenian extended dictionaries and more than 170 academic papers. The scope of her interests includes cognitive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, metaphor theory, methods of teaching EFL/ESL/EAP, as well as testing and assessment.