Eurasian Humanities Institute

This study explores the role of vernacular toponyms as cognitive and communicative anchors in globalized linguistic environments. The research addresses how local place names, often neglected in formal cartography, preserve cultural memory and linguistic identity while facilitating cross-cultural understanding. Using a mixed qualitative–cognitive approach, the study analyzes English and Kazakh vernacular toponyms collected from online discourse, local narratives, and digital maps. The findings reveal that vernacular toponyms function not merely as spatial markers but as carriers of embodied memory, emotion, and identity. They provide insight into how communities linguistically negotiate belonging in a globalized context. The study concludes that preserving vernacular place names strengthens linguistic diversity and fosters intercultural dialogue in global communication.

Although folk tales are central to the nation’s cultural heritage, their potential in English language education is often overlooked due to the dominance of traditional literacy practices and limited multimodal learning. Implementing multiliteracies pedagogy also remains underexplored. This study explores how adapting folk tales into English-language picture books within a multiliteracies framework can enrich university-level EFL pedagogy. Moving beyond translation, this approach encourages students to critically reflect on cultural narratives while expressing them creatively through multimodal design. The project involved thirty-six seventh-semester students in a Literature in ELT course. It was structured around the four pedagogical stages of the multiliteracies framework: Situated Practice, Overt Instruction, Critical Framing, and Transformed Practice. Using a qualitative content analysis design, researchers collected data through classroom observations, field notes, group discussions, student projects, and interviews. Findings show that students critically engage with folk tales’ sociocultural, moral, and symbolic dimensions. They reinterpreted these stories for new audiences, balancing creative adaptation with cultural authenticity. This process enhanced their multimodal composition skills, textual analysis, and audience awareness while strengthening their confidence and voice as future educators. The study highlights the value of integrating folk tales and multimodal practices in EFL settings to promote critical thinking, intercultural competence, and pedagogical creativity. Students showed a greater sense of identity formation through the project, emphasizing the transformative impact of culturally responsive, student-centered pedagogies. This study recommends future research to explore applying student-generated picture books in a real classroom with supporting pedagogical variables to evaluate their impact on long-term literacy development.

The global shift toward communication-driven education has positioned Communicative Language Instruction (CLI) as a vital approach in teaching English, particularly in Indonesian secondary and vocational schools. Despite its increasing application, a systematic understanding of CLI's scholarly development remains limited. This study aims to fill that gap through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of CLI research published between 2014 and 2024. Using structured searches across Google Scholar, Scopus, and Dimensions, an initial dataset of 223 articles was collected. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria focusing on peer-reviewed studies in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, a total of 97 articles were selected for analysis. Bibliometric tools including VOSviewer and Publish or Perish (PoP) were employed to examine metadata such as publication trends, authorship patterns, keyword frequencies, and country distributions. The results show a substantial rise in CLI-related publications, from 7 in 2014 to a peak of 29 in both 2021 and 2022. Indonesia produced the highest number of studies (n = 11), followed by Iran (n = 10). Keyword co-occurrence revealed dominant themes such as "language teaching," "practice," and "interaction," with a strong emphasis on English for Specific Purposes (ESP), particularly in tourism and hospitality. Citation mapping identified three major research clusters and emerging authors contributing to this field. These findings highlight the growing relevance of CLI in vocational education and underscore the importance of integrating ESP content, intercultural competence, and technology-enhanced learning to prepare students for participation in an increasingly globalized workforce.

This paper explores the archetype of “home” as a sacred ethno-cultural symbol deeply embedded in the Kazakh worldview. It examines how the concept of “home” and its contrasting notion “homelessness” function in contemporary Kazakh literature, reflecting broader cultural, historical, and psychological meanings. The archetype “home” is interpreted through interconnected ideas such as “mother,” “family,” “native land,” and “light,” while “homelessness” symbolizes loss, displacement, and identity crisis. Drawing from comparative literary analysis, the study situates Kazakh representations alongside global literary traditions, uncovering both universal patterns and culturally specific distinctions. It is argued that the nomadic past of the Kazakh people, along with their mythology and oral tradition, imbues the “home” archetype with meanings that differ significantly from settled, Western interpretations. These culturally embedded meanings are revealed through symbolic landscapes, character trajectories, and narrative structures in Kazakh fiction. The paper shows how contemporary authors reinterpret ancient symbols to articulate modern experiences of belonging, alienation, and cultural continuity. By emphasizing the spiritual and existential dimensions of “home,” this study contributes to a deeper understanding of how literature reflects national identity and memory. Ultimately, the research enriches the field of cross-cultural literary studies by demonstrating how archetypes acquire diverse meanings in different cultural-historical contexts.

This paper aims to explore the process of self-actualization as a key criterion for developing psychological competence in future educators. To study and determine self-actualization as a criterion for the development of psychological competence of future teachers, a study was conducted at the theoretical and empirical levels. The Kazakh Humanitarian and Legal Innovation University students of various majors participated in the study. Teenagers must be assertive to succeed in all spheres of life, especially at school. Special attention on the part of a psychologist, parents, teachers and consultants should be paid to teenage girls when developing their confident behavior. The government should plan strategies for developing self-actualization skills for students, as there will be quite assertive young people. To eliminate possible inconsistencies noted in this and many other studies, it is essential to conduct further research on how gender affects self-confidence.

The article examines the features of the translation of linguapoetics elements into Russian and English in Magzhan Zhumabaev’s poem “To Madam Gulsim”. Poetic translation is the highest peak of literary translation. Deep, subtextual thoughts are brought into a certain rhythmic form by various artistic and figurative means, and when every word becomes important, the burden placed on the translator becomes heavier. Translation into other languagesof the poetry of Magzhan, a master of the poetic word, is only now being studied. Therefore, we aim to identify successful moments of translation and emerging gaps, comparing artistic and visual means that meet the aesthetic effect in the original and translated text from a lexical-semantic and structural point of view. Also, in the original/translation pair, external parameters and structure are analyzed that give the poem a certain melody and rhythm at the level of syllables, stanzas and rhymes. The results of the study determine the quality of translations of the poet’s po- etry and further contribute to enriching the experience of translation into foreign languages. It is determined which poetry translation strategy (According to J. Holmes and A. Lefever) corresponds to three versions of the translation in Russian and the English translation, and the extent to which it influenced the original content and idea, the artistic form, is interpreted. Currently, only twenty of the poet’s poems have been translated into English. Since Russian serves as an intermediate language for many translations, Russian translations require special analysis.

ABSTRACT The Open Government reform has been actively adopted across various non-democratic regimes, including post-Soviet Central Asia. The reform is supposed to bolster responsiveness and transparency through the active use of information communication technologies, and numerous authoritarian countries have recently adopted and deepened the Open Government reform. In this work, we study whether Open Government reform contributes to responsiveness in autocracies using the case of Kazakhstan under Tokayev’s rule (2019–present). We investigate the concept of the ‘Listening State’ recently adopted in Kazakhstan through the analysis of novel primary data. The perceptions of ordinary citizens reveal that the Open Government reform in the country has not led to the realization of its key goal of increased responsiveness. Therefore, we argue that the Open Government reform has serious limitations in achieving its ultimate goal of a better listening state to people’s needs in autocracies.

The article deals with the city models in the philosophical tractates «Beneficial knowledge» by Yusuf Balasaguni and «Diwani Hikmet» by Ahmed Yasawi. The above mentioned philosophical tractates «Beneficial knowledge» by Yusuf Balasaguni and «Diwani Hikmet» by Ahmed Yasawi are nowadays the common heritage of the Turkic people as a treasure of the history of social, cultural and literary life of the middle ages. All-round systematic study of the ethnic group and statehood, language and graphic system, historical, cultural and ethnopolitical situation of the Kazakh and other Turkic people is an important task for our contemporaries. There are a lot of evidences that the Turkic people inhabiting the vast steppes at the junction of Europe and Asia have long been accustomed to urban life. This is evidenced by the description of the life of the city's inhabitants that can be found in medieval works: «Beneficial knowledge» by the philosopher, poet Y. Balasaguni and «Diwani Hikmet» by A. Yasawi. City Kuzorda (Balasaguni) and Kashgar are mentioned in the work of Y. Balasaguni «Beneficial knowledge» and the cities Medina, Mecca and Turkestan are mentioned in the work «Diwani Hikmet» by A. Yasawi. We have identified the following models of the city through hermeneutical analysis of the selected artistic works: 1. «City – space»; 2. «City – sacred place»; 3. «City – citizens»; 4. «City – disappointment»; 5. «City – historical figures».

The article deals with the question of the classical tradition and its creative development, enrichment, continuity and qualitative differences in the approach to the principle of historicism. Historicism is a necessary condition for creating a full-blooded realistic character. Historicism is considered in detail by the authors on the material of the early prose of the Kazakh writer A.Kekilbayev. Based on a concrete analysis of works belonging to different aesthetic systems, the authors strive to show the mechanism of interaction of characters and circumstances at different stages of the formation and development of realistic art, to present the national character in its historical and aesthetic essence. The innovation of A. Kekilbayev is revealed on concrete examples, the logic of the ideological and aesthetic enrichment of the principle of historicism in Kazakh literature is traced. The article analyzes the problems of historical and artistic truth, the continuity of cultural, folklore traditions and literature. The innovation of A. Kekilbayev's prose is investigated. The comprehension of modernity, the untroubled past and the foreseeable future in a single cause-and-effect relationship; the search for social patterns in the previous, human experience; the socio–psychological study of a person in the circumstances of the epoch - all this determines the main thing in the artistic comprehension of reality from the standpoint of consistent historicism. The analysis of the presence in A. Kekilbayev's prose of the main elements of the poetics of historicism, historical motives and images is carried out. The general, typological, as well as individual, unique basic forms and images with historical content in the originals and translations of A. Kekilbayev's works are revealed. The range of socio-moral problems solved by the writer at the philosophical and aesthetic level is covered in detail. Through the moral lessons of the past, there is a comprehension of modernity. Depicting the distant past, the ancient history of ancestors, touching upon moral problems with a deep universal meaning, the writer finds a response with modernity.