Arman Argynbayev joined Suleyman Demirel University in 2007 as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Humanities. Before SDU, Argynbayev worked at Auezov University in Semey and Bilim-Innovation Schools in numerous cities of Kazakhstan. Argynbayev is a winner of various multilingual and English Olympiads among teachers held by BIL Foundation and Almaty City Council. Currently, Arman is delivering lectures and seminars on assessment and a range of TEFL courses. Apart from assessment and evaluation, Argynbayev’s special interests include Project-Based Learning and Curriculum Design.

MA, Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages (TEFL), 2010, Suleyman Demirel University, Kazakhstan
BA, Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages (TEFL), 2001, Shakarim State University, Kazakhstan

TKT Band 3 in Module 3, Managing the teaching and learning process, Cambridge English Language Assessment, October 2017
IELTS Academic, Overall Band Score 8.0, British Council, March 2017

TFL 438, B2-C1, Assessment in Foreign Language Teaching
TFL 332, B2-C1, Professional Development in TESOL
TFL 504, B2-C1, Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency

'Teaching culture and identifying language interference errors through films'. (2014) English Language Teaching Journal. vol. 7, (issue 9), pp. 49-56
'English-Russian False Friends in ELT Classes with Intercultural Communicative Perspectives'. (2014) Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. vol. 122, pp. 58-64
'Students' Response to Learning Russian-English False Friends through Project-Based Learning.' Al-Farabi National University: Almaty, Kazakhstan - 29 April 2016

'Teaching Russian-English False Friends through Project-Based Learning.' Innovations in Education and Science Conference. Suleyman Demirel University: Almaty, Kazakhstan - 14 October 2016
'Students' Response to Learning Russian-English False Friends through Project-Based Learning.' Al-Farabi National University: Almaty, Kazakhstan - 29 April 2016

Project-Based Learning, Multilingualism

1st Place in Tri-Lingual Competition: Languages Development Board of Almaty, Kazakhstan (2008)
3rd Place in the English Proficiency Test among Kazakh-Turkish High School Teachers (22 schools): KATEV Foundation, Kazakhstan (2006)
2nd Place in the English Proficiency Test among Kazakh-Turkish High School Teachers (22 schools): KATEV Foundation, Kazakhstan (2005)
2nd Place in the English Proficiency Test among Kazakh-Turkish High School Teachers (22 schools): KATEV Foundation, Kazakhstan (2004)