The Language Peculiarities of Internationalization of Higher Education in Modern Kazakhstan

Abstract

Abstract. In article the directions of internationalization of education in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which have
their own features, are considered. Progress of the al-Farabi Kazakh national university that has completely adopted
educational programs, conforming to the international standards is noted. The university shows positive dynamics in
the sphere of expansion of the international cooperation, the academic mobility, and development of social partnership
that caused advance of al-Farabi KazNU in a world rating and its occurrence in top-300 best universities of the world.
Prospects of development of the academic mobility promoting further successful inclusion of al-Farabi KazNU in
global scientific and educational space are outlined.
According to the State program of development and functioning of languages and the project «Trinity of Languages»,
the Kazakh language surely raises the positions in communicative and language space of the republic, and in education.
Besides, teaching in English is developed promptly at schools and higher education institutions of Kazakhstan; Russian,
despite reduction of volume of its use, keeps an important role in the sphere of the higher education that causes language
features of internationalization of education in the republic.