DEPARTMENT OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES
The Department of Theory and Practice of the Foreign Languages was established in 2006 with the aim to improve students’ oral and written communication skills in two foreign languages as well as in their mother tongue to the level required by the labor market.
The primary aim of the department is to give insights into and equip students with a holistic understanding of the theory of Translation and Foreign languages. 5 department teachers have participated in a joint KazUIR&WL and Waikato project.
At present there are four associate professors, one Fulbright visiting scholar, four senior language lecturers and six Masters of Arts.
Baglan Mizamkhan
Academic degree and title:
Associate Professor, head of the department
The main publications:
1. “Jurisprudence. Legal Philosophy in a Nutshell” by S.P.Sinha – Translation from English into Kazakh. “Ghylym” Publications, Kazakhstan, 1999
2. State Educational Standard, speciality “Foreign Philology”. Kazakhstan, 2009
3. Standard Program, speciality “Translation Studies”. Kazakhstan 2010
4. «Translation of Inter-confessional summit texts» a translation course book for 3 year, Kazakh Department students, 2010
Leading specialists of the department
Aizhan M. Kurkimbayeva            Senior teacher, Specialist in E-learning
Ainur A.  Zhaparova            Master of Arts, Senior teacher

Maysara B.  Duysenova ,  Senior Language Specialist
The main publications:

• Effective Strategies and Techniques meeting challenges of language teaching. Cambridge University Press. International Scientific Conference.
• Some theoretical aspects of literary text translation. May, 28, 2010

Gulnur R. Davletova
Associate Professor, Gulnur R. Davletova is the Distinguished Teacher of the RK and is a Leading Specialist of German as a second foreign language. Master of sports in Table Tennis

From 1998-2008, Dean of the Translation Faculty
The main publications:

• ‘Translation as a Process’. Moscow, 2002
• Note taking in consecutive translation. Almaty, 2003

  
 Fulbright visiting scholar Anna Oldfield is a Professor at Hamilton College in New York, where she teaches in the department of Comparative Literature. She earned a PhD diploma in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), where she specialized in epic literature. Professor Oldfield published her first book in 2008 and has published articles in many scholarly journals, as well as giving lectures in the United States and other countries.  She has worked on numerous cultural exchange projects including the Smithsonian Folkways Music of Central Asia series (with Theodore Levin), the British Library Endangered Archives Programme, and the San Francisco World Music Festival.

Alevtina P.  Baimbetova       
Academic degree and title:Associate Professor, Leading Specialist in French as a second foreign language.
Academic degree and title: Associate Professor, Leading Specialist in French as a second foreign language.
In 1989 she worked as a member of Kazakhstani delegatin within the framework of International Commission “Dialogue – 89” held in France where the president of France F. Mitterand and mayor Jacques Chirac have participated.