INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNIZATION OF KAZAKHSTAN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the results of the 80-year-activity of the Kazakh Ablaikhan UIR&WL in the field of internationalization and integration processes of the foreign language education system.

Aim of the article is to reveal the experience of the university in solving innovation and investment trends and modernization of the higher professional education.

The article analyzes, summarizes and systematizes the main measures taken by the university to enter the world educational space as well as to modernize the foreign language education in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Based on the examples of one of the oldest universities in the country, one can draw a conclusion about the main trends in the development of education in general, foreign language education in particular.

The article characterizes various formats of the university's international interactions, activities in building educational and industrial cluster verticals as well as professional consortia and associations that provide corporate education initiated by the University in cooperation with foreign partner universities and professional communities.

It is noted that the KazUIR & WL actively uses all the possibilities of corporate education networks and:

- organizes large-scale, budget-funded academic mobility of bachelors, masters and doctoral students;

- trains specialists within joint educational programs (double diploma) together with the universities of China, South Korea, France, Great Britain, Spain, New Zealand and Malaysia;

- takes part in international projects to work out joint curricula; to mutually recognize diplomas, and expands common educational space.

Much attention is paid to the disclosure of the role of the university in the scientific field and in provision of modernization of the foreign language education as well as the conceptual platform of professional foreign language training of a specialist.

Professional and applied nature of the research carried out at the university is emphasized. It is manifested by the development of state standards of other specialties, model programs, assessment criteria, textbooks and teaching aids on foreign language education.

University predetermines the vectors of development of foreign language education in the Republic of Kazakhstan.