Professor Emeritus of Romance Philology
Mzago DOKHTOURICHVILI graduated from Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in 1971. In 1978 she completed a two-year course of the high pedagogy at Moscow Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages. At the same Institute she successfully defended the Ph.D. dissertation in 1982. In 1982-1993 she delivered the TV lessons of French at Georgian main TV channel. In 1994-2006 she headed the French Language Department at Ilia Chavchvadze State University of Language and Culture. In 2000-2010 she headed the Georgian-European University Program – French as Foreign Language/Applied Foreign Language which she set up in the framework of academic partnership with Paul Valery University-Montpellier 3, that provided the graduate diplomas of France and Georgia. Since 2000, she occupies a position of coordinator within the University Partnership Program between Ilia State University and Paul Valery University – Montpellier 3. In 2012-2015 she served as a founder and a head of the Central and Eastern European Humanities Doctoral College – CODFREURCOR. She is currently a member of executive committee of CODFREURCOR. In 2010-1016 she was a representative of Central and Eastern European Universities in the executive committee of AFELSH. Since 2014, She edits the French annual academic journal –“Etudes interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines”. She is awarded with two French Government medals: “Knight in Order of the Academic Palms” and she is also an accomplished member of International Association of the Order-owners. In 2011 she was named “Officer in Order of the Academic Palms’. On January 29, 2018 she was elected as a Member-Correspondent of Montpellier Science and Literature Academy, founded in 1706 by King Louis XIV.
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Bachelor's degree
Text - Universal Form of Perception and Expression of the World (autumn semester
Analysis of French speech (spring semester, )
Contemporary theories of enunciation (autumn semester, )
Théories contemporaines de l’argumentation (spring semester, )
Master
Language research methods (autumn semester, )
Contemporary Linguistic Currents: Textual Linguistics / Discourse Analysis (autumn semester, )
Applied linguistics (spring semester, )
Contemporary French Literature (spring semester, )
Courses taught in French in the academic year 2013-2014:
Didactics of Writing, Literary Text Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Praxematics and Meaning-making, Contemporary Grammatical Theory and French Teaching
Courses taught in French to the European-Georgian program in the years 2003-2010:
Bachelor's degree
General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical general linguistics, French Stylistics, Intercultural Communication, Pragmatics, Syntax, Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Didactics, Linguistics and Teaching / Learning, Contemporary Theories of Argumentation
Master
Didactics of writing; Contemporary linguistic currents; Discourse Analysis Praxematics and
Meaning-making
The courses taught at Paul Valéry University – Montpellier 3:
Master
Intercultural didactics and the methodological and socio-cultural problems of teaching French (on the example of Georgia and the countries of the post-Soviet space) – 01.11. 2011 01.12.2011
Men, Languages and Cultures: Subject, Teaching / Learning and Language Relationships January-February 2006
Bachelor’s degree, Master:
Intercultural didactics and the methodological and socio-cultural problems of teaching French (on the example of Georgia) - April-May 2003