The comparative linguistics, Lexicology, Lingua-cultural studies, Teaching the Kazakh language as L2, Language teaching Methodology 

Omarbekova Gulnara Abildaevna – candidate of philological sciences (2004), Associate Professor (2011). She graduated from Almaty Pedagogical Institute of foreign languages with honors in 1984, and in 1994 graduated from the Kazakh-Turkish University. She worked as a teacher and as the head of the Department of Postgraduate studies at KazUIR and WL named after Abylai Khan. After she worked as the head of the Department of Linguistics (2004-2007) at the Caspian Public University. She was the dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Kazakh State Women’s Pedagogical University.
G.A. Omarbekova is a winner of the international scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Bolashak” (2010). She participated in the scientific training (2010-2012) at Griffith University, Australia. Omarbekova G.A. was awarded the special bursary of the international scientific conference «Australex-2011″ in Canberra. Starting in October 2014, she has been working as an Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University.