Online Research Internship at Belarusian Partner-University

This academic year, the research internship of 2-year graduate students at all faculties of the L.N. Gumilyov ENU took place mainly online. This is provided for by the quarantine conditions in which the higher educational institutions of Kazakhstan have been operating to this day.

At the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department graduate students of the “7M01719 – Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages” education program underwent scientific internships also in a distance format from November 30 to December 09, 2020. The host university was the Belarusian partner university of ENU – Fracisk Skorina Gomel State University. The research internship took place at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and the scientific adviser was the Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty Yelena V. Sazhina.

 

The research internship program included such types of work as lectures, seminars, scientific seminars and online work with electronic catalogs of the partner university’s library. Lectures for future English teachers were given by the following representatives of the Gomel State University: Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​Ye.V. Sazhina with the course “Polemic Discourse of Printed Media”; Candidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the English Language Theory and Practice Department I.A. Khorsun with the course “Literature of the United States of the XX-XXI Century”; Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the English Language Theory and Practice Department O. Lidenkova with the course “Corpus Linguistics”; Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the English Language Theory and Practice Department O.N. Chalova with three courses “Linguistics of Discourse”, “Culture of Scientific Polemics” and “Main Directions of Theoretical Linguistics”. Online research internship took place on the Skype platform.

 

Every day, 2-year graduate students spoke at a scientific seminar on the main topic of their master research and received valuable instructions from the lecturers of the English Language Theory and Practice Department that specializes in training teachers and lecturers of foreign languages.

 

Rectors of L.N. Gumilyov ENU and Fracisk Skorina GSU signed a memorandum of understanding on January 25, 2019, and since then, the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department ​​of ENU and the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of GSU have been maintaining active scientific and methodological cooperation. The last conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of GSU was held on October 23, 2020, where 6 ENU teachers made their scientific reports https://clck.ru/SQUC6.

 

The final conference on online research internship, which took place on December 09, 2020 on the Skype platform, was attended by representatives of the leadership of both partner universities. On behalf of ENU the online conference was attended by the Head of ENU Postgraduate Education Department, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor O.V. Lashkareva who spoke on the results of the work done and thanked the leadership of the partner-university.

 

L.N. Gumilyov ENU represented by the Faculty of Philology and the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department expresses deep gratitude to the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor Yelena V. Sazhina for the clarity in the organization of the program “Research Internship of Graduate Students” and for the assistance provided in the preparation of the relevant international documentation.