D. Sekirbayev EKSTU had a joint training for subject teachers on the 3rd of October, 2019. The training was devoted to the topic “Teaching academic subjects in English in a multilingual context: Principles and Practices”. The trainer is a Director, MA in Multilingual Education program, assistant professor of Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, Dr. Bridget Goodman.      

Trainees reflected on the  main goals of teaching and learning in courses taught in English, identified best practices from the international literature and ongoing research in Kazakhstan to support and enhance teaching and learning in English, familiarized deeply with terms such EMI,CLIL and translinguaging and defined type of communication and at least one teaching strategy for helping students achieve the goal.