Selenay Koshumcu is a Turkish teacher with over 15 years of experience! A young,promising specialist who already has a Doctoral degree and is an integral part of the academicfamily of the Turksoy faculty of the Al-Farabi KazNU University.Selenai Koshumcu, a native speaker of Turkish, has been successfully teaching Turkishto students who want to learn the culture and language of the brotherly Turkish nation since2008. As an active full-time teacher, Selenay continues to improve her knowledge of thesubjects she teaches, constantly improving her teaching skills and the art of teaching a foreignlanguage. The young specialist sets the goal not only to help her students be successfullinguists, but also she focuses her attention on character education of her students,who willbenefit the society and possess eternal universal human values. Teaching at the leadinguniversities in Kazakhstan, Selenay has always demonstrated a deep respect for the personalityof the student, trying to influence their future in the most positive way. A lot of efforts on the partof the teacher were made to instill in students the skills and competencies that will allow them tobe in demand as high-caliber specialists.

Detailed lesson planning, thoughtful preparation for each lesson always provides thestudents of this young professional with an exciting journey into the world of the Turkish language, thereby motivating them and improving their academic performance.Selenai Koshumcu stands out for her great desire to keep pace with technological progress andintroduce the latest technical innovations into the teaching process to improve and improve thequality of educational services. Content and Language Integrated lessons and the use oftechnical devices are an integral part of her lessons.The events of recent years have made significant changes in how the world lives andfunctions today, every sphere of human life has been modified and adapted to new conditions. If we are talking about education, then the new requirements dictated by time and situation haveonly had a positive impact on the modernization of the education format. All educators had clearobjectives to improve distance/online learning skills.Trainings, consultations and demo classesprepared by Selenay Koshumcu helped dozens of teachers to master the technical skills ofconducting lessons online, in combined formats without stress, opening up the possibility ofreaching a large audience of listeners and making the learning process more accessible. The teacher himself actively uses a variety of educational platforms to share experience on themethods of teaching Turkish for foreigners both online and offline.Being a representative of Turkish culture, the young specialist cannot but share a pieceof the Turkish world with his colleagues and students. Cultural events designed to raiseawareness of Turkish culture, folklore, traditions, as well as to strengthen the friendship betweennations, are regularly prepared and held under the leadership of Selenai. A talented andproactive teacher has more than once been the organizer of educational programs, roundtables, meetings, providing colleagues and students with the opportunity to exchangeexperiences and professional communication.Folk wisdom says: a teacher stops being a teacher when he stops studying, during herteaching career, Selenai has always been in a process of learning and acquiring new skills,actively working on her research works . Her articles are published in leading pedagogicaljournals, projects and seminars are attended by many colleagues and students. Educationshould bring practical benefits - the young specialist believes that the task of the teacher is notonly to share subject knowledge, but also to form a personal discipline that will guide and helpto survive in further scientific and career searches.Students rarely follow what teachers tell them to do, they most often look at what theteacher does himself! That is why the decision of a progressive specialist was to learn theKazakh language and be a role model for his students. Having mastered the national language,the teacher of the “Turksoy” department clearly demonstrates the fact that the main thing is justa desire! Selenay Koshumcu, a role-playing teacher of our time, young, ambitious, ready fordifficulties, accomplishments, burning with the ideas, plans and goals, believing in students andthat the most interesting is yet to come!

E.Z. Dulayeva

Associate Professor of Turksoy Department

 PhD A. Halel