The Department of Kazakh Linguistics trains specialists in the field of education, culture and language policy, offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs.

Students of the department have the opportunity to study along four trajectories: "Kazakh language and literature", "Philology", "Kazakh language and literature in schools with non-Kazakh language of instruction", "Kazakh and English languages". The curriculum includes such topical disciplines as "Cognitive linguistics", "New directions in linguistics", "Linguistics of translation studies", "Comparative grammar of Kazakh, Russian (foreign) languages", "Comprehensive analysis of literary text".

The department graduates will be able to work as teachers of secondary and secondary vocational educational institutions; employees of cultural institutions; secretaries-assistants; office managers; museum workers; proofreaders, editors of publishing products; employees of editorial offices of newspapers, magazines, radio, television; employees of education departments.

The scientific interests of the department are related to the study of the leading areas of modern linguistic knowledge, such as cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, ethnolinguistics and cultural linguistics.