“Foreign language” Department Head

Name: Yuliya Novitskaya, M. Ed.
Head of Foreign Languages Department
Address: 76, Gorky St., office 406
Email: ynovitskaya@gmail.com
Phone: 8 (7232) 50-28-33

Yuliya Novitskaya – born in 1971, Master of Education (M.Ed.). Overall teaching experience – 30 years. In 1993, she graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of East Kazakhstan State University with the qualification of a teacher of English and German languages.

After completing her studies, she began working as a teacher at the department of practical English language courses at East Kazakhstan State University. In 1996, she was transferred to the position of senior lecturer at the Department of Language and Translation, and from 2001 to 2003 she served as deputy dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at EKSU.

In 2003, she received a grant from the US State Department for master’s studies at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, USA). In 2005, she graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Higher Education Administration and received a Master of Education degree (M.Ed.). Yuliya Novitskaya completed an online course in Human Resource Management at Letourneau University (Longview, Texas). In June 2014, Yuliya Novitskaya successfully completed advanced training courses for teaching staff at Newcastle University (Newcastle, UK). In February-March 2015, she completed the professional development program “Visiting International Professor” at Warner Pacific University (Portland, Oregon, USA), in August 2016 she participated in the professional development program in Singapore (Republic of Singapore), in 2022, she completed a professional development program and had a research internship at the West-Saxon University of Applied Sciences (Zwickau, Germany), where she also participated in the organization and conduct of the summer semester in 2023. In November 2023, she gave a series of guest lectures on academic English and organizational behavior at the G. Om Technical University (Nuremberg, Germany).

Y. Novitskaya is a practicing translator, works with the English-Russian language pair, and performs written and oral consecutive translations.

Y. Novitskaya is a permanent member of the Republican Appeal Commission when conducting comprehensive testing for applicants to master’s and doctoral programs, a permanent expert of the National Testing Center, and a developer of aptitude test tasks (analytics) and English language test tasks for comprehensive testing.

Yuliya Novitskaya is also engaged in research and methodological activities. Her research interests include communicative methods of teaching foreign languages, teaching translation, pragmatic aspects of translation, as well as organizational aspects of change management in higher education.