Department of Foreign Philology

Education

• 1991-1996 Kostanay State University, teacher of English and Kazakh languages.
• 2006- Chelyabinsk State Academy of Arts, Russia, specialty 13.00.05 Theory, methodology and organization of social and cultural activities, candidate of pedagogical sciences.

Subjects taught

• Sociolinguistics
• Methods of foreign language education
• Academic writing
• Modern methodology of foreign language
• Education in higher education
• Innovative technologies in teaching a foreign language
• Language analysis
• Information literacy
• English for special purposes
• Listening

Work experience

• 2021- to date , acting Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Philology.
• 2020-2021 Acting Head of the Department of International Cooperation and Recruitment of Foreign Students of A. Baitursynov Kostanay Regional University.
• 2010-2020 Head of International Relations Department.
• 2009 -2010 Acting Head of the Department of Roman and Germanic Philology.
• 2008 - present Associate Professor of A. Baitursynov Kostanay State.
• 2006-2008 - Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Humanitarian Institute.
• 1996-2006 - Lecturer, Head of the Department of English Philology, Kostanay Pedagogical College.

Certificates / certificates of professional development 

• June-August 2005 TEA-2005 professional development program in English Teaching Methods, Montana State University, Bozeman , USA.
• July 24-August 14, 2010, E - Teacher Certificate , Teaching English for Special Purposes Teaching Methodology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County USA.
• April 2013, certificate of professional development in the field of international cooperation, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
• October-November 2015, University of Padua, Italy, professional development in the field of intercultural communicative competence, transformational pedagogy.
• 06/18/2018-07/03/2018 Certificate, Computational Linguistics: Language Analysis Course, University of La Coruña , Spain.
• October 1, 2019 – October 29, 2019, online course certificate, TCE - The Consultants -E, UK, electronic moderation , events and technologies for student organization online communication.
• February 18 - February 29, 2020, IVLP certificate, USA - International Leadership Program, "Meridian", US Department of State International Center.
• August-October 2021, the project "Modernization of secondary education" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the support of the World Bank, "Course on training experts in the evaluation of textbooks and teaching materials", using international experience, 72 hours.
• October-December 2021 Project PUDP - Project for the Development of Pedagogical Universities by the Regional Office of English Language Programs of the US Embassy to improve teaching skills online "Methods of teaching English, developing the content of the academic discipline" 36 hours.
• June-July 2022 online, MOOC course of the US State Department's Online Professional Network for Teaching English TESOL Methodology.
• January 2022-September 2022 - Partnership to develop the capacity to apply project-based learning for teaching and research in the field of renewable energy, 72 hours in a project with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA.
• November 4-5, 2022 – Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN) – Sustainability and Grant Writing Bootcamp, interactive training and seminars on local university capacity building on strategic planning and developing writing skills to secure international grants, contracts, and cooperative awards, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, American Councils for International Education.
• 13-16 June 2022, TESOL Regional -2022 International Conference: Language Teachers as Innovators: Digital Literacy and Communication Approaches.
• September 2022-May 2023 Scaffolding Pedagogical university Development Project - Strengthening the Capacity of English Teachers, a project supported by the Office of Public Affairs of the US Embassy.
• Constancia: virtual international Collaborations, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa-Enríquez, 23.09.2022-16.12.2022.
• 72-hour training for Textbooks and TLMs evaluation experts (on evaluation school textbooks and TLMs based on international experience) August-September 2021, online, Kazakhstan.
• 72 - hour virtual Training - o f - Trainers program for training English Language Secondary School and College Teachers in methodology, content, and curriculum development conducted by U.S. Department of State English Language Specialist Seneca Ryan in partnership with ARELTA from September 26 through December 15 , 2022.
• Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN) – Sustainability and Grant Writing Bootcamp. November 4-5, 2022,Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• TESOL Methodology MOOC 2022, June-July 2022; US Department of state Open Online Professional English Network.
• OPEN Fall 2023 Fostering Student Motivation and Engagement Facilitated MOOC  US Department of state Open Online Professional English Network.
• 72 hour online professional development course “Unisung ‘information design’ to improve teaching with multimedia”, July 2022.
• “The concept of an open university: acceleration and mentoring for the development of startups and the development of existing businesses for young people” UXiship, 2.05.2023-12.05.2023.

Membership in professional organizations

• Member of the Coordinating Council of KazTEA - Kazakhstan Association of English Teachers.
• 2021, 2022 - Member of the International Association TESOL (professional organization of teachers of English as a second or foreign language).
• 2022- present – member of Public Association “IHEEP-Internationalization of Higher Education: Effective Partnership”.

Awards and prizes

• 2013 badge "Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan".

Training manuals

• Language Analysis. 2022, ISBN 978-601-356-197-4.

Publications

• Kandalina E . , Franyuk I .EFL textbooks as means of enhancing learners' ICC. Bulletin of KSU im. Sh.Ualikhanov . Philological series. - Kokshetau, No. 2, 2020, pp. 255-262.
• Kandalina E . M ., Zhabaeva C . S ., Erasmus+ in A. Baitursynov Kostanay State University: experience and perspectives. _ Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Technology, Education and Development. March 11-13, 2019 Valencia, Spain INTED2019, pp : 1508-1514 Publication date: 2019 ISBN: 978-84-09-08619-1 ISSN: 2340-1079 DOI: 10.21125/inted.2019.0458.
• Kandalina E., Abdrukhmanova N., Aripov M. , Duprte A., Georgouli K., Gomez-Rodriguez K., Maya V., Sharipbai A., Tukeev U., Urazboev G., Vetulani Z., Yusipov O. Erasmus + project experiences on the computational linguistics master degree in the Central Asia universities , Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Technology, Education and Development. Valencia , Spain INTED2020, 14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. March 2-4 , 2020. Page 4803-4812, ISBN: 978-84-09-17939-8, ISSN: 2340-1079 DOI: 21125/inted.2020.1321.
• Kandalina E . M ., Nurgazina A .Media discourse as a component of the university's information space. Sat International scientific conference "Word, statement, text in cognitive, pragmatic and cultural aspects", April 2020, pp. 593-602. DOI: 10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.70.
• Professional Development needs of English teachers in Kazakhstan. Bulletin of the Karaganda university Pedagogy series. № 2(110)/2023. DOI 10.31489/2023Ped2/154-164.
• Kim N.P., Kandalina Ye.М., Fedotova Ye.S.,  Matveyeva N.A. Professional and psychological readiness of future police officers for work in the internal affairs bodies.Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Ser. Education. Educational Sciences. 2023, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 24–37.
• Akhmetova V, Balji Y, Kandalina Y, et al. Self-reported consumption frequency of meat and fish products among young adults in Kazakhstan. Nutrition and Health. 2022;0(0). doi:10.1177/02601060221114230.

International projects

Institutional and country coordination of the project

• 585845-ERP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-CLASS Development of an interdisciplinary master's program in computational linguistics at Central Asian Universities” (2017-2021).

Intra -country and inter-country interaction and project communication management

• 610170-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP - ELBA Establish training and research centers and develop courses on big data mining in Central Asia (2019-2022).
• 561574-EPP-1-2015-1- ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP - ECCUM Creation of Computing Centers and development of a master's program in mathematical engineering (2015-2018).
• TEMPUS 511172-DE- 2010 CIBELES "Curriculum development based on the Bologna principles of education leading to reform-education in the field of environmental protection" Tempus (2010-2013).
• 544132-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-FR-TEMPUS-JCPR Development and implementation of master's programs in food safety, production and marketing of TRADITIONAL Products in Russia and Kazakhstan (2013-2016).

Participation in the project implementation

• 574157-EPP-1-2016-1-IE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP - DIREKT "Development of trans-regional information literacy for lifelong learning and knowledge economy" (2016-2019).
• 598661-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-DECIDE Development of services for persons with disabilities (2018-2022).