Professor, Eleonora Dusenovna Suleimenova – an outstanding specialist on the theory of language – works in department of general linguistics since 1970; From 1995 she is a head of this department – a member of Presidium of International Association of Teachers of Russian language and literature (Bratislava, 1999), member of Social Council on languages and culture of Basic Organization of States – participants from CIS (Moscow, 2000), member of Scientific Council of INTAS (Brussels,2003), expert of INTAS (Brussels, 1996-1999), member of International Editorial Council of journal “Russian language abroad” (Moscow,1999), “Russian Language Journal” (Washington, 2000); member of International Editorial Council of journal “Vestnik IATRL” (Moscw, 1999), president of Kazakh Association of Teachers of Russian language and literature (Almaty, 1998). In 1993-1994, E.D. Suleimenova is a professor of Department of Slavic at University of Maryland (USA).

From 1997 to present, E.D. Suleimenova is a chairman of dissertational council Д 14 А.01.31 (1997-2001), then Д 14А.01.22 (2001 – at present) on the defense doctors dissertations concerning three specialties 10.02.01 Russan language, 10.02.19 theory of language, 10.02.20 comparative - historical, typological and contrastive linguistics at al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Professor Gulmira Bayanzhanovna Madieva – specialist on theory of onomastics – from 1996 works in this department; in 1997-2000 – chairman of faculty committee; in 2000-2002 she was a scientific secretary of dissertational council Д14А.01.22; 2000-2001 was a head of this department; editing member of “Orleu” journal (2000-2002); A secretary of social union “KATRL”; responsible editor of “Bulletin of KATRL”. Defended the candidate’s on theme: “Gidronimy of East Kazakhstan”, supervisor was professor A.S. Amanzholov; doctor’s thesis was written on “Onomastic space of Modern Kazakhstan: structure, semantics, precedention, lemmatization” (2005). 7 candidate’s dissertations were defended by the direction of G.B. Madieva.

The sphere of her interests is the problems of theoretical and applied onomastics, bilingual lexicography and general linguistics. G.B. Madieva published more than 100 works and there is a monography “Theory and practice of onomastics” (Alamaty, 2003), G.B. Madieva – one of the developers of international project "The Lexicographical Description of Loanwords in Kazakh" INTAS-96-0073, one of the authors of “Dictionary of general linguistics” (Almaty, 1998), she is a coauthor of educational complex for 7^th grades, included the book “Russian language”, “Methodical leadership” and “Collection of dictations and compositions” (Almaty, 2004; 2007).

Professor Ybrayeva Zhanar Kulmatovna expert on comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics , candida of Philology . In 1999 he defended his thesis " National-cultural specificity with conventional frazeologizmov somatism (based on the Kazakh , Russian and English languages) " (supervisor PhD, prof. Shaimerdenova NJ ) . Author textbook " Nonverbal communication : cultural identity " (2003 ) . Scientific progress and achievements Assoc. JC Ibrayeva were awarded the scholarships to young and talented scientists (2006-2008) . Member of MES "State language as a basic component of the national idea in the process of national identity as a basis for sustainable development of Kazakhstan's society " ( 2007-2009) . Winner of the " Best Young Scientist 2008 Treasury ." KAZPRYAL member since 2005.

Professor Shaikenova Lyazzat Maratovna specialist in the theory of speech acts - working at the department after postgraduate and Ph.D. thesis "Functional- semantic description of mental performatives " (Almaty , 1999, supervisor prof . Suleimenova ED ) . LM Shaikenova  Scientific Secretary of the Dissertation Council D 14A.01.22 for doctoral dissertations (2002-2007) , author of the manual " performative : types and modes of expression " (Almaty , 2003). Scientific progress and achievements Assoc. LM Shaikenova were awarded the scholarships to young and talented scientists (2004-2006) . Member of MES "State language as a basic component of the national idea in the process of national identity as a basis for sustainable development of Kazakhstan's society " ( 2007-2009) . Winner of the " Best Young Scientist 2008 Treasury ."

Associated professor Ariya Hasievna Azamatova – a specialist on classic and Slavic philology – from 1995 works in this department; defended candidates dissertation on “Greek-Latin base of internalization of diplomatic terminology”(supervisor E.D. Suleimenova; Almaty, 2001); Doctors dissertation was written on “Metalanguage of linguistics: semantics, pragmatics” (2008) – A.H. Azamatova – an author of monography “Metalanguage of linguistics”; with an associated professor Z.A. Mukanova was written the first books in republic on “Latin language”. A book for sciences faculties (Almaty, 1998) and “Latin language and bases of scientific terminology”. A book for sciences faculties (Almaty, 2002). Scientific success and achievements of A.H. Azamatova were noticed by State Stipend for young and talented scientists (2002-2003).