Aliya Zholdabayeva
2022 IVLP Impact Award Project: English Language Learning and AcquisitionKazakhstan
Aliya Zholdabayeva is the head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Pavlodar Pedagogical University, which prepares future teachers to successfully teach foreign languages, including English, German and Chinese. Aliya graduated from the Pedagogical Institute with honors and has worked as a university lecturer for more than 20 years.
In 2012, Aliya won the Presidential International Scholarship funded by the Kazakhstani Government to study in the United Kingdom. She completed her master’s program at the University of Reading in England. The topic of her dissertation was “Parents’ attitudes towards a multilingual approach of education beginning from primary school level in the context of the Republic of Kazakhstan."
IVLP Impact Award Project: English Language Learning and Acquisition
Twenty university students from Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia and 12 young Ukrainian children living in Kazakstan improved their English-language skills through weekly courses provided by the project. Classes focused on augmenting participants' speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills in English, one of the most popular and demanded languages in the global world. The students no longer need to rely on phone translations or subtitles and can thrive in new personal and professional experiences.
"Visiting speaking club was an exciting and very useful thing, because you may speak and listen to the other students in an informal atmosphere. The topics were so interesting and very helpful, because you may use the lexical and grammatical structures in everyday situations." - Project participant
IVLP Exchange Experience
Aliya participated in the IVLP Project Digital Education in the US in 2021, organized by the U.S. Department of State and Meridian International Center in partnership with the World Trade Center Institute and International House.
U.S. Communities Visited Virtually
Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC