This year, the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department, the Faculty of Philology won a grant from the Embassy for the Online English Fellow Program. As part of the program, the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, in cooperation with the George Town University (USA), sent M.A. August Garnsey as an English teacher. August Garnsey is a graduate of the TESOL program at Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, USA) and is a Certified Instructor in courses such as CELTA, CLIL and TKT. At the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department of the Philological Faculty, headed by Candidate of Philology Zhanna A. Beisembayeva, August Garnsey will be co-teaching with the department teachers such courses as “Profession-Oriented English” (senior lecturer Raissa U. Latanova.), “Innovative Technologies in FLT” (Prof. Akzhan M. Abdykhalykova), “Multimedia Technologies in FLT” (Prof. Akzhan M. Abdykhalykova). The English Fellow Program has acquired a virtual form and is conducted online in the first semester of the 2020-2021 academic year (from October 10, 2020 to January 08, 2021).
