AKHMET BAITURSYNOV - THE DISSEMINATOR OF HUMANITY

On September 6, 2018 at the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages, Philological Faculty of L.N. Gumilyov ENU, a festive event “Akhmet Baitursynov – the Founding Father of Kazakh Linguistics” was held in the framework of the Languages Days. It was dedicated to the birthday of the great Kazakh Enlightener, Teacher, Linguist, Turkologist, Poet and Translator Akhmet Baitursynov. The freshmen – FL-11 group students and their mentor Akynova Damira Birzhanovna organized this excellent event. 

       The purpose of this event is to shape the students' enthusiastic attitude to the study of languages and to instill a love for the history of their own nation.

  The Department Chair, Ph.D., Associate Professor Beisembayeva Zhanna Alibiyevna, department teachers and first-year students attended the event.  

In response to the framework of the state Trilingualism policy, students presented their speeches in three languages. During the festive event, the students showed their versatility. They sang, danced, played dombra. The student from the group FL-11 Zhantemirov Kasym created a wonderful mood in the audience by performing a dombra kui "Balbyrauyn". In the interval of the concert, the students organized a quiz, questions on the biography of Akhmet Baitursynov. The game also aligned with the state language policy of Trilingualism, as participants were offered assignments in three languages: Kazakh, Russian and English. As usual, the quickest and the strongest respondents won the competition. The concert showed the versatility of the students of the group FL-11 and gave everyone a festive mood.