Maira Yesimzhanova
Senior Lecturer/ Language Center
Education/ Research
Candidate of Sciences, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University,
(theory of linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics), 1998
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001-2002
Courses taught at KIMEP
Academic Reading and Writing 1, Academic Reading and Writing 2, English for Specific Purposes, Academic Speaking, Academic Listening and Note-Taking, Public Speaking
Research interests:
Second Language writing, language planning, discourse analysis, methods of teaching, cognitive linguistics
Research output (selected)
Yessimzhanova, M. (2015). Teachers and students: Perceptions of feedback in Second Language writing”. KazNU Bulletin, Philology series, 3(155), 2015, 92-198.
Yessimzhanova, M. (2015). Cross-language phraseological parallels (on the materials of the English, Russian, and Kazakh languages). Тренды в филологической науке: школа профессора Э.Д. Сулейменовой (сборник статей), 157-163. ISBN 978-601-04-1068-8.
Yessimzhanova, M. (2015). The “hospitality” concept in phraseology: a comparative study. Materials of forum “Linguistic heritage and trends of the modern age: Language, literature, culture”, Almaty, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 25-27.
Yessimzhanova, M. (2014). Language modernization in Kazakh: Terminology issues. European Scientific Journal, Special Edition, (2), 69-72. e – ISSN 1857- 7431.
Yessimzhanova, M. (2013). Feedback in Second Language writing classes. Paper presented at the XIII Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, August, 2013.
Yessimzhanova, M. (2011). Phraseology in a multicultural community: a comparative study. Paper presented at the XII biennial conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), University of Cambridge, UK, September, 2011.
Contact information
Phone: 270-43-71, ext. 2252
Office: 213 Dostyk bld
E-mail: mairayes@kimep.kz