On November 25-26, 2022, at the Department of Language and General Educational Training of Foreigners was held an international scientific and practical seminar "Innovative technologies in teaching Kazakh as a foreign language and Russian as a foreign language: optimization of the educational process". On November 25, a meeting was held in an online format, in which, in addition to the teachers of the department, speakers from Japan, Iran, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan took part. During the discussion of the presented reports, linguists exchanged views on various problems of teaching Kazakh, Russian, Kyrgyz, Ukrainian, English, discussed topical methodological issues. On November 26, the seminar continued in the traditional format. Representatives of the Russian publishing house "Zlatoust", specializing in the production of textbooks on Russian as a foreign language, spoke to the audience, who presented new textbooks, Internet resources, and also presented their publications to the department. The moderator of the meeting was Doctor of Philology, Professor Shaimerdenova Nursultan Zhamalbekovna. The event was held at a high organizational level.