Decade of Science: Russian Language and Literature Department Reports Day

Traditionally, during the Decade of Science of Abai KazNPU at the Institute of Philology the Day of Reports of teaching staff of the Russian language and literature department was held. The lecturers made reports in four sections. There were 43 papers in the programme, 37 people made their reports online.

During the linguistic section, participants discussed topical problems of various branches of contemporary linguistics: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, ethnolinguistics, integrative linguistics, as well as semantic research, applied linguistics, and translation studies.

Presentations in the section "Problems of Literary Studies" included theory and methodology of studying prose works, research on genrology, processes of development of the modern Kazakh children`s literature, experience of using podcasting for popularization of Kazakh literature, etc.

The reports in the methodology section were devoted to the most important problems of teaching philological disciplines at school and high school: achievements of modern linguodidactics, axiological approach to learning, problems of digitalization and distance learning at high school, advantages and efficiency of electronic textbooks, practice of case studies, CLIL-technology in teaching Russian language and literature at high school, etc.

Reports in the section "Problems of teaching Russian language to students of non-philological specialties" covered various aspects of language teaching methodology: using interactive teaching methods, innovative technologies in Russian language classes, formation of linguistic and communicative competence in the language of the future profession, integrated linguistic and subject-specific teaching of professional Russian language, specific organization of independent work (on the example of project method), group work, reflection strategy at work.

The topicality of the themes of the reports and their practical application in educational work aroused lively interest among the participants of the conference and led to an active scientific discussion. The importance and significance of such a dialogue is invaluable, as scientific work is unthinkable without it.