"LANGUAGE. CULTURE. COMMUNICATION" RESEARCH CENTER NAMED AFTER ACADEMICIAN Z.K. AKHMETZHANOVA
About
The “Language. Culture. Communication” Research Center was established in the spring of 2023 with the financial support of SDU, in honor of its founder, Professor Z.K. Akhmetzhanova.
Our mission and vision involve developing the scientific potential of the faculty within the “Linguistic Education” department and the Faculty of Education and Humanities, as well as increasing student motivation for research activities. Furthermore, the center conducts research aimed at identifying the relationship between language, culture, and communication, publishing articles, and popularizing science.
Aims and objectives
1) Organizing events (scientific seminars, workshops, round tables, and conferences) aimed at developing the research competencies of the department’s faculty
2) Inviting international and domestic colleagues to exchange experience and increase awareness in the field of educational research.
3) Establishing partnerships with domestic universities by organizing research internships for Master’s students.
4) Attracting grants for scientific projects to support the development of the center.
5) Actively involving the department’s faculty in research work to improve teaching effectiveness.
6) Increasing the interest of young faculty members in science and popularizing scientific research.
7) Actively engaging students at all levels in research work to strengthen the country’s scientific potential.
8) Contributing to the development of the “SDU University Bulletin: Pedagogy and Teaching Methods” journal.
9) Authoring joint scientific articles with the faculty of the department.
10) Preparing joint publications with the faculty’s Master’s and PhD students.
Team
Saule Tulepova
Head of the Center, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at SDU
Experience: Has been working at SDU since 2013. Served as the coordinator for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD programs in “Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages,” and as the Head of the Academic and Methodological Bureau of the Faculty of Education and Humanities.
Teaching: Conducts lectures for Master’s and PhD students on “Academic Writing” and “Advanced English Grammar.”
Nastya Nesterova
Assistant of the Center SDU PhD student, Lecturer under the “Zhas Maman” program
Center's Activities
The Research Center held the following scientific- practical seminars.
02. 2023, the head of the center S. Tulepova held a scientific- practical seminar for teaching staff, undergraduates and doctoral students of the Faculty of Education and Humanities on the topic “Scientific and predatory journals: what we should know about them.”
During the seminar, S. Tulepova shared her observations obtained during the publication process of her article in a scientific journal and spoke about the differences between scientific and predatory journals, metrics. Also, the participants performed various practical tasks on the correct structuring of the article and discussed problems related to journals and publications.
On February 23, 2023, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of SDU, G.M. Kassymova held a scientific seminar on “Qualitative methods in intercultural communication research”.
The professor shared her experience of conducting qualitative research in the field of intercultural communication and presented an informative presentation. During the seminar, the participants were interested in tools for conducting qualitative analysis, and also discussed the possibility of purchasing software for such analysis.
On March 02, 2023, the next scientific seminar was held by senior lecturer of the department S.P. Lukashova on the topic “High and low agreeableness in teaching: research-based analysis”.
The seminar participants were actively involved in discussing the characteristics of the teacher and identified themselves as high and low agreeable in the process of teaching their disciplines. Particular attention was drawn to the study conducted by Svetlana Petrovna among 182 future English teachers, the results of which identified the key characteristics of teachers with high and low agreeableness.
Publications
Authors: Ordabekova H., Tulepova S., Zholshaeva M., Kurkebaev K.
The current article attempts to analyze the concept of “wolf” and its conceptualisations by native Kazakh people through the study of Kazakh idioms, set expressions, proverbs, sayings, and quotations with this component. The objective was to conduct the conceptual analysis in order to discern figurative-associative and evaluative meaning of the concept “wolf”. By presenting the cognitive model of this concept in the linguistic consciousness of the Kazakhs, its conceptualisation is demonstrated, the associative nature of the concept “wolf” and its universal, ideological and ethnocultural features are manifested. It was found that the concept “wolf” has various conceptualisations, reflecting the Kazakhs’ naive national-linguistic picture of the world and evokes interpretations with positive and negative connotations as well.
Workplan
| Planned Activity | Timeline | Responsible Person |
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Participation in juries for evaluating scientific projects in network competitions among NIS, secondary schools, lyceums, and gymnasiums |
October, November 2026 |
Faculty staff, Research Center team |
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Organizing and inviting leading scholars from SDU and other universities to conduct seminars |
4 times a year |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Organizing "Consultation Hours" on academic writing and publications for young specialists and students |
Throughout the year |
Research Center team |
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Conducting a series of scientific seminars on academic writing |
Throughout the year (monthly) |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Organizing research internships for 2nd-year Master's and PhD students |
Semester 1 |
Coordinators of "Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages" program |
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Organizing and supervising research internships for Master's and PhD students from Al-Farabi KazNU (based on agreement) |
Semester 1 |
Head of the Center, Faculty staff |
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Preparing joint publications in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases |
Throughout the year |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Preparing joint publications in QACMSHE journals and "SDU University Bulletin: Pedagogy and Teaching Methods" |
Throughout the year |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Holding a scientific project competition (across all majors) |
April 20, 2026 |
Research Center team |
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Organizing a round table |
Once a year |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Participating in joint scientific projects with international and domestic researchers |
Throughout the year |
Faculty staff, Master's and PhD students |
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Business trips to universities in Kazakhstan and neighboring countries to conclude agreements on scientific internships |
Throughout the year |
Head of the Center |
Contacts
“Language. Culture. Communication” Research Center
Director
Saule Tulepova
Email: saule.tulepova@sdu.edu.kz
Republic of Kazakhstan, Kaskelen, 1/1 Abylai Khan Street
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