Going Global Partnership Programme: InterLinks: UK-Kazakhstan Small Grants Scheme for TNE strategy design 2023/2024

Duration: 1 September 2023-31 March 2024

Project Leader:

•  Professor Barbara Skinner, Professor of TESOL and Education, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

Project team at Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University:

• Yelena Kandalina, assistant professor of Foreign Philology Department
• Regina Akhmetkaliyeva , head of Foreign Philology Department

Project aim: to explore the creation of a curriculum structure which fills the pedagogical skills gap of Kostanay’s Foreign Language Philology master student teachers.

Project objective: to develop a TNE structure whereby Kazakh students are accredited for their prior learning on their MA Foreign Language Philology degree to allow exemption from first semester of MA TESOL at Ulster University.