In 2021 Marina Zhambylkyzy was awarded a Bolashaq Fellowship to participate in the six-month Research and Leadership Program at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. 14 Kazakh scholars from different 10 Universities of Kazakhstan had the internship in the University of Minnesota: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Gumelov Kazakh National University, Nazarbaev University, Auezov South Kazakh State University, Kazakh National Womens' Teacher Training University, Kazakh British Technical University, Almaty University of Energy and Communication, Pavlodar Pedagogical University, German Society for International Cooperation, Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan.

During the program, they had more than 50 academic workshops, 10 academic site trips to Anoka-Ramsey Community College, State Olaf College, Minnesota Duluth University, UMN Extension and worked in the library on research topics.

Marina Zhambylkyzy have successfully completed an intensive one-week certified program CARLA. During fall 2022 she met one-on-one with the assigned Faculty mentor and worked on her research topic.

On November 15, 2022, the exhibition "Presentations of Universities" was organized to familiarize the university leadership and teaching staff with the scientific and technical potential of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakh culture and traditions, the education system and universities, teaching staff and students. Representatives of 10 Kazakh universities took part in the exhibition.

From 11/18/22 to 11/19/22 M. Zhambylkyzy participated in the conference “The Minnesota English Learner Education (MELED) Conference.”

After the completion of the internship she was given a certificate of completion of the program.

PhD, assistant professor of the department of General Linguistics and European languages Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich won the research fellowship of the University of Maryland located in College Park. His position was Language specialist at the Language Science Center. The term of this appointment started from February 1, 2020 and end August 31, 2020. The contribution of Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich included working together in a team of three to provide expert, native-speaker input into developing a collection of semantically coded queries that will be used in the development of various human language technologies. His objective was to check the accuracy of these queries, as well as semantic mappings into English. Working from an existing corpus (collection of text and speech documents), he was responsible for assessing the relevance of each document-query pair and provided quality control adjudication for other members of team. Apart from research project, Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich took part in various auditing courses, gave guest lectures.

ABOUT SCIENTIFIC INTERNSHIP 

The modern world is developing very quickly and dynamically in all spheres of human activity, especially in the field of education. Globalization and universal integration cannot bypass one of the most powerful engines of society - the youth. Now young people have all the opportunities for personal development and for the exchange of information in an intercultural society. One of such opportunities was awarded to students of the 4th year of the specialty "Foreign Languages: Two Foreign Languages", the Faculty of Philology and World Languages, Al-Farabi University, headed by its curator-adviser Kuzembekova Zh.Zh., who spent 10 days of scientific internships at one of the oldest universities in the world - Istanbul University. In the period from 14.03. till 24.03.2019, students had internships in various departments of the university: they attended lectures by famous professors and supplemented their knowledge, read books in the legendary Istanbul library, participated in round tables and worked in the Kazakh-Turkish Center. It is also worth noting that during the stay of students at the university, a great holiday Nauryz was organized, which is common for all Turkic people. On this occasion, the students prepared a national dance “Kara Zhorga”, sang songs and played national instrument- dombra. Being in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, students not only trained, but also visited the main sightseeings of the city such as the Blue Mosque, Basilica cistern, Galata tower and Topkapi Palace. The 10 days of the internship were very useful and the students were issued certificates of completion on the last day of the internship.

INTERNSHIP IN THE FOGGY ALBION

       From 17 to 30 June 2018, in the framework of the academic mobility program of the MES of the RK, an overseas internship took place in the specialty of Linguistics in St. Mary's University and Aitmatov Academy (London, England).

     The internship in London turned out to be a very useful and productive event for our professional and academic activities. The internship program allowed to meet in the format of business meetings with academic representatives of St. Mary's University and Aitmatov Academy, visit the British Library, the British National Museum, Oxford University (Oxford) and learn what is important for linguists who are engaged in intercultural communication, the subtleties of English hospitality.

       Since the KazNU has a high level of training of students at all academic levels, undergraduates were fairly easy to do an internship, because the bar for the preparation of undergraduates at the KazNU. Al-Farabi is very high.

       All meetings, presentations, handouts and informal communication with teachers St. Mary's University was focused on the elimination of myths about England as a country quite extortionate and prim. The internship program was focused on the attractiveness of London life, on the desire of the host to enter into new academic and business relations, on the desire to exchange experiences between students and undergraduates in England and Kazakhstan. The British openly demonstrated interest in partnership and long-term cooperation.

     A huge plus of the internship that gathered a team of like-minded people. For a long time, we exchanged experiences within the group, shared ideas, commented on the complex issues that we face in practice. During a visit to St. Mary's University and Aitmatov Academy we had fruitful excursions to world-class colleges, such as Oxford and Cambridge universities. For us, this was interesting and useful both in academic and in general educational terms.

     What exactly you need to learn from the British, is the culture and traditions. In the hotel business, it is respect for customers and, of course, hospitality. In English hotels, we once again convinced that everything should be imbued with the spirit of hospitality. This is read on an intuitive level, when the entire hotel staff, from the manager to the maid and the cook in the kitchen, wants to make it as pleasant as possible for her guest. In our society, this is needed to strive. Of course, this is a mentality, these are traditions brought up by generations, but if we talk about practice, everything is simple. 

     England is a very multifaceted and ambiguous country. Libraries, temples and fortresses amaze with their ancient beauty. And all this is surprisingly harmoniously combined in one space with new architectural structures. The British, despite their restraint, are very welcoming and friendly. They respect themselves, others and, of course, tourists.

     We would like to thank the leadership of the Kazakh National University. Al-Farabi, Head of the Department of General Linguistics and European Languages Gulmira Bayanzhanovna Madiev, International Student Marketing and Recruiment Manager of St. Mary’s university Sian Rees-Jones, Director of Aitmatov Academy Abduvalieva Rakhima Musaevna for the opportunity, because this trip played a big role in the preparation of the master's thesis.

Undergraduates of the 2nd course

Kazakh National University

specialty "Linguistics"

Sadyrbaeva Zulfira

Zadakhanova Aliya

Teacher Moldasanova Aysulu Ablakimovna together with the students of Katman Telmanov, Tulegenova Dinara, Dzhapparova Diana, Sandibek Zhaudir, Satybaldina Aruzhan, Espusinova Asel, Ospanov Assel, Murat Almaz, Zhapar Din from February 12, 2018 to February 22, 2018 successfully passed scientific-research internship at the Moscow State Linguistic University,
in Russia in the city of Moscow.

A student from France, the city of Paris, Valentine Dussau Baptis, from December 14, 2017 to June 1, 2018, to study at KazNU im, al-Farabi on acad mobility № 4-4236, the program "Erasmus +" ECTS

Students from KazNU named after al-Farabi Sultanova Dinara, Iskaderova Zhansaya, Kontek Ayim, Nurakhun Anel, Temirkhan Zhansaya, Dosumbekova Madina, Kalikova Anel from November 20, 2017 to February 28, 2018 went on an educational trip on academic mobility in France, in the city of Nancy in University Center of Lorraine (Université de Lorraine)

Students from the city of Astana, the Eurasian University Baibulova Assem
Sultankyzy and Dinzhumanova Dana Erlanovna since November 26, 2017
till December 6, 2017 successfully passed the Scientific internship in KazNU named after al-Farabi, Foreign philology (the period of research).

In 2017 Professor Gulmira Bayzhanovna succeeded at Istanbul University in Turkey
  research experience

Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich had an internship from 04.04. 2016 to 16.04.2016 in National Scientific University Higher school of Economics (Moscow,Russia) by program «Foreign Languages and intercultural communication»

Utemgalieva Nasihat from October 15, 2014 to December 15, 2015 in Austria in the city of Linz
successfully passed the training courses

Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich did research during 20.10. 2015 – 20.12. 2015,19.05. 2016 – 20.06.2016 at Joint National Committee for Languages – NationalCouncil for Language and International Studies, Centre for Applied Linguisticsand regularly visited Library of Congress, worked on dissertation «Eponyms inpolitical discourse: pragmalinguistic aspect». Consulted with foreign co-advisorW. Rivers concerning dissertation, writing scientific articles and took part invarious scientific seminars.

Taubayev Zharas Turysbekovich had an internship at Columbia university and«CPLC (Campus)» centre by program «Academic skills in English» from 08.06.2013 to 05.07.2013 in New York.

Taubayev Zharas Tyrusbekovich participated in methodical seminar “Training ofteachers of Chinese language” in Shanghai, 2012.