Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at Tbilisi State University, in Georgia. Ph.D.  in Linguistics, has been teaching ESP  and  EAP  for over thirty years at several schools of the University; The author of numerous articles in Phonology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, ESP teaching Methodology and of a full length study titled “ The Development of  Intonation in  Infants;”; Participant of various international projects in EFL and ESL in the USA and the UK organized by Georgetown and Cambridge Universities. A visiting scholar at St. Michael’s College, A visiting professor at Tuscia University (Italy -  2010;2017; 2018). The member of ETAG in Georgia. The graduate  of two e-course programmes conducted by ETTO and OU (Oregon University).

    Academic interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Language Learning, Lexical Equivalence, Language Acquisition, Functional theory of Translation, History of Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistic and Intercultural Aspects of Professional Language Development, Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication, History of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics.