Professional biography

Professor, English Language Department

Qualification – Secondary school English language teacher

1976-1977 – English Language Instructor, Chair of Foreign Languages, Shymkent Pedagogical Institute

1977-1999 – Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor of the Kazakh State University of International Relations and World Languages 1998-1999 – Associate Professor of the Diplomatic Academy Chair of Foreign Languages

2006-2016 – Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of the Kazakh-British Technical University, International School of Economics

2016-present – Professor of Satbayev University. The English Language Program Coordinator. The Head of the Reading Club for young teachers.

The author of 50 publications in the area of English Grammar, Text linguistics, Methodology of Teaching English, Critical Thinking.

Certificates

1989 – English Studies Course, Ealing College of Higher Education. London, Great Britain.

1998 – Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers Certificate Course.  Level One. British Council, Almaty.

1998 – International House Certificate Course in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults. Soros Foundation, Almaty.

2003 – Communication Skills Workshop. Vienna, Austria.

2004 – On-line Teacher Training Course in Critical Thinking Skills. University of Oregon

2014 – Webinar “Shaping the Way we Teach English”. US State Department, Almaty.

2015 – Online Teacher Development "Shaping the Way We Teach English, 1: The Landscape of English Language Teaching. US State Department, Almaty.

Education

1. 1972-1976. Almaty Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages

2.  1982-1986. M. Torez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, Candidate of Philology, specialty “Germanic Languages”.