«New humanitarian education. 100 new textbooks in the Kazakh language»

On 3 April 2019, in the framework of the decade of science, at the Department of Oriental Philology and Translation Study, there was held a scientific seminar. The 1st year students of the Department, Nursylu Umirtassova («The importance of direct translation of Victoria Fromkin`s «An Introduction to Language» from English into Kazakh Language) and Ayzhan Auyelbekova («The feature of translation of book Karen Armstrong «A History of God: the 4,000 year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam» from English into Kazakh language») made presentations. Their studuies were conducted under the direction of Doctor of Philology, Professor Aigul Zhumabekova.

This themes is the most relevant, since the textbooks «An Introduction to Language» and «A History of God: the 4,000 year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam» published in 2018 as part of the Roukhani Zhangyru project and introduced in the educational process of all universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, have not yet been analyzed in the translation aspect.

The head of Division of SRW, SRWS and innovation Gulzada Baimbetova and Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Philology and Multilingual Education Zhanagul Sametova attended the meeting.

Students and masters of the department enthusiastically participated in the discussion of reports and the quality of translations of the presented textbooks from English to Kazakh.

Those present at the seminar were informed about the great opportunities for young researchers that are in our university.