Experience of teaching the Kazakh language abroad

On February 20, 2024, the Department of Kazakh Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University held a seminar-training  on  the topic: "Experience of teaching the Kazakh language abroad" with Associate Professor Akymbek Syezd Shardarbekuly, a teacher of the Shanghai Foreign Languages University of the People's Republic of China. The goal is to share the experience of teaching the Kazakh language abroad.
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) has partnerships with more than 400 universities and research institutes in 60 countries and regions. One of them was the contract  with  Al- Farabi Kazakh National University   signed on September 24, 2017. The signing of this contract resulted in opening  "Kazakh language and literature" major. During this time, 10 graduates studied  this major  and were able to find   a job. 6 students are currently studying this major. Four of them are studying  at  Al-Farabi KazNU by  academic mobility program. 
Syezd Shardarbekuly said  that teaching Kazakh language to students of hanz nationality is not so simple, they spend more time only on studying phonetics and phonology because  some sounds (for example, р) are not present in their language  and shared the methods jow to teach students to pronounce them in a correct way . The  educational program  of this major is throughly developed   based on  the world standard of foreign language learning. He said that the determination of the students who chose the specialty "Kazakh language and literature" and their desire to learn  Kazakh language are qualities that they instilled in them from an early age. As a result of 5 years of work in the same country, he showed the speech of Chinese students with the help of a video. The students have a good command of the language and can freely participate in any dialogue. They are able to express their thoughts in gramaticcaly- correct way. 
In general, the seminar-training aroused  an interest among Kazakh-language specialists, colleagues who joined the seminar online. They asked questions that interested them, and  shared their experience. Also the participants  told about their  textbooks on Kazak Language. 

Imankulova S.M. Candidate of Philology, senior lecturer of the Department of Kazakh Linguistics  of Al-Farabi KazNU.