65 years ago, the Department of General Linguistics started working at the Philological Faculty of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Due to  the pedagogical activity of the  scholars  and  lecturers  who are still working and who worked at the department, the department has been conducting fruitful work for many years. This department became the work  place  of such scholars as I. I. Meshchaninov, S. E. Malov, Zh. A. Aralbayev, K. A. Akhanov, V. M. Nikitevich.  The    department lecturers  have worked at universities of  China,  the USA, Turkey, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria,  the Netherlands, Germany, Finland,  Poland,  the Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and other countries. The department lecturers  also regularly  take part in  international congresses and conferences. International scientific cooperation is also reflected in the scientific supervision  of  PhD students. Prof. Amanzholov A.S., E.D. Suleimenova, N.J. Shaimerdenova, assoc. R.A. Avakova, G.B. Madieva and others were the scientific  supervisors and consultants of the  graduate students from China, Korea, Japan,  the USA, Germany, Spain.