Multilingual education

MULTI-LANGUAGE IS THE MANNER OF THE TIME

Multilingual education at S.Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University

Since 2012 at S.Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University (hereinafter referred to as KATU) as one of the first 20 universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan a program of multilingual education has been implemented . The process of multilingual education at the university is understood as the purposeful activity of the structural divisions of the university to provide language training for qualified, competitive specialists who speak Kazakh, Russian and English, as well as the appropriate level of academic writing in English.

Growth dynamics of multilingual programs

Multilingual education in undergraduate programs is carried out in the following specialties:

№	Code	Speciality
Agronomy Faculty
1	5В060800	Ecology
CSPE Faculty
2	5В012000	Professional education
3	5B070300	Information Systems
Veterinary Faculty
4	5В070100	Biotechnology
5	5В080200	Technology for the production of animal products
Technical Faculty
6	5В072400	Technological machines and equipment
7	5В080600	Agricultural machinery and technology
8	5В072700	Food technology
*Economic Faculty*
9	5В050800	Accounting and Auditing
10	5В050900	Finance
*Energy Faculty*
11	5В071900	Radio engineering, electronics and telecommunications

Starting from the 2015-2016 academic year, all specialties of the master's degree (31 specialties) and doctoral studies (14 specialties) have completely switched to multilingual education.

In connection with the need to monitor the knowledge of English language among students of multilingual groups, the Center for International Cooperation and Multilingual Education conducts incoming, intermediate and final testing in a computer format at the beginning of the academic year and at the end of each semester.

In order to monitor the quality of education in multilingual groups of bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies, the Center for International Cooperation and Multilingual Education, together with the faculties, annually conducts a sociological survey (questionnaire) of students and teachers.

Also, every year courses with a native speaker for teachers, researchers, undergraduates involved in multilingual education to improve the language skills are organized at the university. In the first half of 2014, the number of teaching staff who received language training amounted to 119 people with the native speakers from Singapore and the United States. 44 teaching staff of the university received certificates on courses with a native speaker from the United States,.

In the 2014-2015 academic year, 120 university teachers attended intensive courses with a native speaker from the University of Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia for one month. At the end of November 2015-2016 academic year, academic English courses were organized with a teacher from Hungary, Irma Horvath, and 11 teachers of the Foreign Language Department attended intensive English courses (30 hours) with the issuance of certificates with a native speaker from the University of Arkansas, USA, during two weeks. In the 2016-2017 academic year, courses with the native speakers from the UK by Marcos Estrada were organized for one month and also courses with a native speaker from Australia, Matthew Benett, which would take place throughout the current academic year.