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    Academic Integrity: Students’ Awareness and Instructors’ Promoting Strategies in English
    (SDU University, 2025) Nesterova A.
    With the emergence of artificial intelligence, maintaining academic integrity has become one of the most discussed topics. Thus, universities make attempts to decrease academic dishonesty. The aim of this research is doublefold: first, it seeks to identify students’ awareness of academic integrity. Second, it describes the instructors’ roles and strategies they use to maintain academic integrity. To achieve these aims, the adapted version of M-AIS was distributed among 187 students, majoring in the specialty “6B1702: Foreign Language: Two Foreign Languages” at one private university in Kazakhstan. As for instructors, 12 of them participated in semi-structured interviews. The research followed a mixed method design, in which the quantitative part was analyzed based on mean, standard deviation, and Spearman’s rank correlation. Overall, it was found that the students were fairly familiar with academic integrity and held positive attitudes towards it. However, they still perceived plagiarizing home assignments, getting unpermitted help, and mispresenting sources as trivial plagiarism and admitted to being engaged in them. In addition, there was a correlation between the student’s year of study, GPA, perceived severity of academic dishonesty, and self-reported engagement in it. The findings were interpreted using Hatch’s (2002) framework of typological analysis. As regards the instructors, their roles in promoting academic integrity were moderately active (ambassador). They taught different techniques to avoid plagiarism, assigned authentic assignments, or developed their own materials. The other part was determined to be passive (casual and detached) because they believed in students’ responsibility to learn about academic integrity. As for strategies, the instructors considered the Turnitin application and authentic assessment as effective ways of maintaining academic integrity. In addition, they made presentations to teach about academic integrity. On the other hand, they did not believe in the usefulness of honor codes and online proctoring applications.