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Recognition of Excellence: Institute of Language and Literature Scholars Awarded New Academic Titles
By order of the Chair of the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the academic title of Associate Professor (Docent) in the scientific field 6D0200 “Language and Literature” has been awarded to Elena Sabieva, Director of the Institute of Language and Literature, and Maira Kakimova, Head of the Department of Germanic and Romance Philology.
Elena Viktorovna holds a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree, is an Associate Professor and an Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She has headed the Institute of Language and Literature since 2018. She is actively engaged in research and develops scientific areas such as “Onomastics,” “Toponymic Landscape of Northern Kazakhstan,” “Toponymic Studies of the North Kazakhstan Region,” and “Philological Regional Studies.” She is the author of more than 90 publications, including 11 textbooks and teaching and methodological manuals.
Maira Yerengaipovna Kakimova, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor and member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), has been actively engaged in research for more than 20 years. Her main academic interests lie in linguistics, particularly onomastics, as well as the methodology of foreign language education. For over two decades, she has also headed the Department of Germanic and Romance Philology, whose educational programmes have repeatedly ranked among the top positions in the Atameken Rating. She is the author of more than 30 scientific publications.
Together, Elena Sabieva and Maira Kakimova have worked on two significant grant-funded projects: “An Integrated Study of the Toponymic Landscape of the Border Regions of Northern Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation” and “Content and Language Integration in Teaching English in Biology Classes under the Updated Educational Programme of the Republic of Kazakhstan.” The relevance of their research is driven by the growing interest in issues related to the interaction between language and culture. Through the study of toponymic vocabulary, the historical settlement areas of Kazakhs in Russia’s border territories have been identified.
Congratulations to our scholars! We wish them continued success in their scientific and teaching activities and the achievement of new professional heights!