UNIVERSITY WIDE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
The purpose of the Department of Foreign Languages: to increase the initial level of foreign language proficiency achieved at the previous stage of education and to solve social and communicative problems in the field of everyday, cultural, professional and scientific activities of students, as well as for further independent learning and mastering a sufficient level of communicative competence.
The main activity of the department is the organization of methodical seminars at the university and national levels. Teachers of the department actively participate in scientific and methodological seminars organized and conducted by international organizations and foreign embassies in Kazakhstan. Thus, the priority of the department is the training of teachers, which contributes to the growth of pedagogical skills, improving the quality of foreign language teaching. Teachers of the department receive international and national certificates.
The teaching staff of the department conducts classes for first-year students using innovative and interactive methods. Teachers of the department regularly organize their activities in accordance with the development strategy of the university and modern requirements. Uses advanced distance learning techniques in their lessons. This contributes to the effectiveness of the educational process with the transition to an online education system and the combination of modern information technology, as well as the direct interaction of students with teachers. The teaching staff of the department includes Google meet, Zoom, Google doc, Google presentation, Flipgrid, Padlet and others and actively uses modern educational tools.
The scientific directions of the department are:
– basic theoretical and practical questions of a foreign language;
– methods of teaching foreign languages.
2017-2020 Senior Lecturer of the Department Orynbayeva U.K . studied at the doctoral program of KazUIRaWL named after Abylai Khan on "Scientific and methodological bases of formation of reflexive competence of future foreign language teachers." Protection is planned for 2020-2021.
In the 2019-2021 academic year, senior teachers of the department Zhaukumova Sh.S., Kylyshpayeva M. H., Toktanova A. K., Dyusebaeva S. B. entered the doctoral program at Zhetysu University named after Ilyas Zhansugurov.
In the 2020-2021 academic year, teachers of the department participated in an international seminar "English Language teaching methodology and content development of online classes" organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the US Embassy in Kazakhstan. At the end of the seminar, all teachers received certificates.