Foreign Languages Center
Tahira Aliyeva
PhD in Philology Associate Professor, Head of Foreign Languages Center
Translation, Interpretation, Idiomatic English, Problems of Modern Translation, Academic Writing
+994 12 492 74 18
tahira.aliyeva@wcu.edu.az
Education and Professional Experience:
She was born in Baku in 1969. She graduated from School No. 1 specializing in English. In 1987, she was admitted to the Azerbaijan University of Languages, majoring in English Language and Literature Teaching, and graduated in 1992. From 1992 to 1996, she worked as a lecturer at the Department of English Lexicology at the same university. From 2007 to 2017, she worked as a senior lecturer at Western Caspian University. Since 2017, she has been serving as an associate professor and the head of the Department of English and Translation. Starting from September 2024, she has been working as the Director of the English Language Center. She holds numerous certificates from local and international training programs.
Scientific Publications and Academic Contributions:
· Translation and Its Current Issues – “Contemporary Challenges Faced by Translators”
· Language and Speech
· Features of Translation and the Concept of Translational Maneuvering
· Film Translation – “Freedom and Independence Are the National Wealth of Every Nation”
· The Use of Onomastic Units in Azerbaijani, English, and German Languages
· Modern Issues in Linguistics
· Neologisms in Political Articles – 4th International Conference Proceedings, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey
· Argumentation and Its Expression Methods
· Challenges in Contemporary Translation – London, United Kingdom
· The System of Performative Utterances in the Light of the Synthesis of Theories of Act and Speech – Toronto, Canada
· The Concept of Scrambling in Different Languages
· Scientific Discourse and Interesting Points of Its Usage
· Course Program: Interpretation – 2024
· Course Program: Documentation and Terminology – 2024
· Course Program: Translation and Intercultural Communication – 2024
· Course Program: Theory of Translation – 2024
· Course Program: Fundamentals of Professional Translation – 2024