Research Interest
The search for new ideas in teaching, to update theoretical and practical knowledge, improve teaching skills are one of the important areas of my professional goals.
The main area interest is Kazakh Language Teaching Methodologies for me.
As a Pedagogy Expert and Researcher I am interested in the advanced language teaching and training from a state of the art modern methodology standpoint including cognitive comprehension, comparative grammar and culture
Gulzhamilya Shalabayeva received her master’s degree in Pedagogical sciences from University “Turan –Astana”(2014). Her research and teaching interests include methods of teaching from the point of view of modern, applying cognitive science to promote student learning, comparative grammar, language and culture. More specifically, she is interested examining theories of education, studies of significant innovation in Western educational thought and ideas, she is also studies of teaching about quality and effective learning at university. Her master’s research was concerned with the development of spoken language of students.
G. Shalabayeva took part in a number of professional development courses, including the ones on translational business (2007), interactive technologies of training, and international training course for academic teachers “Current problems of humanities and social sciences”, organized by Research Centre for Eastern Europe at the University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn and Higher Education Foreign Language Institution.
In 2012, she presented her work “Integration: language, culture, customs andInternational training course for academic teachers «Current problems of humanities and social sciences» , which was organized by Research Centre for Eastern Europe at the University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn and Higher Education Foreign Language Institution (Poland traditions” at the international scientific conference “Bologna Process – experience and prospects”in Turkey.
Scholarly Presentations:
2019, 27 -29 June “Use Problem based learning for Reading in Kazakh Language”. The 2nd
International Conference on Language, Education and Culture”:
Intersection of Cultures, Istanbul Medipol University (Turkey)
2019, 20 -22 June “Selection of Reading Materials in Kazakh Language Learning”. The 5th
International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES-V):
Intersection of Cultures, at Nazarbayev University organized with
Ercieyes University (Turkey)
2019, 18 January “Academic Kazakh I & writing strategies”. The 2nd seminar-training for
teachers of the Kazakh Language “ STEAM language learning:
technologies and experience sharing”, Nazarbayev University
2018, 14-15 November “Teaching Kazakh Language through Reading: Problem based
approach”.The 3rd American Association of Teachers of Turkic
Languages Conference: Curriculum, Program, and Materials
development in Teaching Turkic Languages and Literatures,
University of Texas (Austin, USA)
2017, 2-4 February “The relationship of the languages and cultures and the role of culture
in a multilingual society”. The 4th International Symposium on Asian
Languages and Literatures: Understanding Culture (ADES -IV),
Aurangabad (India),
2016, 13-17 May “Peculiarities of translation of Kazakh realities of life into Russian”//
VI International Scientific Conference “Russian Language and Culture
in translation reflection” organized by Lomonosov Moscow State
University, Athens (Greece).
2015, March “The function of grammatical constructions in the formation of
communicative competence” . Scientific and practical Conference
“Kazakh language in a multilingual world: issues and future” ,
Nazarbayev University
2015, February “The role of communication in learning the Language” . Seminar
for teachers of the Kazakh Department in order to exchange
experience, Nazarbayev University
2014, October “Lermontov’s Lyric in Abai Kunanbayev’s translation interpretation”//
IV International Scientific Conference “Translation as a mean of Culture
Relationship, organized by Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Krakow (Poland).
Academic Kazakh I