GenEd Faculty & Staff

Jiydegul Alymidin kyzy, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

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Dr. Jiydegul Alymidin kyzy is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the American University of Central Asia. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language Education (2016) and a Master of Arts degree in English Language Education (2009) from the Institute of Educational Sciences of the Gazi University (Turkey). She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Simultaneous Translation department from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (2004, Kyrgyzstan). In 2013, she completed an internship with Pilgrims English Language Courses in Canterbury, England.

Dr. Jiydegul Alymidin kyzy joined AUCA in 2017. In addition to teaching, she has been actively involved in various online course development projects, including Basic English courses developed by AUCA and Ilim Elim (2017–2018), the practical part of Basic English courses in collaboration with Ilim Elim, the Soros Foundation, and Prague Civil Society (2018–2019), as well as the OSUN online course development project involving AUCA, Al-Quds Bard University, and Arizona State University (2021–2023). She also participated in the Writing and Thinking Workshop at Bard College (2024, USA).

Turkiye Scholarships (2006-2009), (2010-2016)

Learner beliefs
Affect in language teaching
Teaching language skills
Approaches and methods of teaching
Practice teaching
Intercultural communication
Formulaic language,
Teaching vocabulary,
Lexicology,
Corpus linguistics,
Translation of academic,
Juridical and other texts among Kyrgyz, English, Turkish and Russian, and online course development.

Jiydegul ALYMIDIN KYZY, Carol Griffiths, "Using Narratives to Prepare an Integrated Skills Lesson in English Language Teaching", Humanising Language Teaching, Vol. 17, No. 1, Feb. 2015
İbrahim Hakan Karataş, Jiydegul Alymidin Kyzy, Cemrenur Topuz, "School Administrators’ Relationships with Academic Studies carried out in Educational Administration and Scholars", Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 125-152
Carol Griffiths, Jiydegul Alymidin Kyzy, "Using Narratives to Present an Integrated Approach to the Development of Target Language Skills and Linguistic Knowledge", Humanising Language Teaching, Vol. 16, No. 4, Aug. 2014
"A Comparative Study of Compliment Responses in Russian and Turkish", European Researcher, 27, 1259-1268, 2012
Kültürlerarası Yeterlilik Edinimi: Türkçe Öğrenen Öğrencilerin İltifat Yanıtları Örneğinde", IJSES International Journal of Social and Economic Sciences, 1, 011-014, 2012

Proceedings:

"A Comparative Study of Compliment Responses in Russian and Turkish", 1st Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics Conference at Burch University Sarajevo/Bosnia and Hersegovina
"The role of conversation gambits in speaking fluency of EFL students", Education, science and global changes in modern society, Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 2012

Accelerated English
English Composition for Liberal Arts I & II
First Year Seminar: English for Liberal Arts I & II
Graduate Writing, Thinking and Learning (for MA students)
Intensive Academic English I & II
Vocabulary Studies (Summer School)