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Item Open Access DRAMA BASED APPROACH IN READING COMPREHENSION(Suleyman Demirel University, 2016) Orynbasarova F.K.Basically teaching English as a foreign or second language involves a balance between receptive and productive skills; this way, drama can effectively deal with this requirement. By applying drama activities, the class will practice and integrate all language skills and reading skills as well. The drama activities involve learners and teachers in thinking and working like actors, directors, playwrights, audience members, and critics. Drama activities invite students and teachers to take text on the page and use it on the stage. Reading comprehension itself is the ability to read and understand text. By using drama, we can engage learners with the text in order to deepen their understanding of the text. The purpose of this study is to find out how to develop reading comprehension through drama based approach and investigate a feedback of introducing new innovative method of drama in reading classes in Kazakhstan. For this research, we investigated the sample groups studying Analytical Reading, where the teacher has been applying elements of drama. Consequently, we collected data from these sample groups and interviewed the teacher. In this paper, we will present implementation of drama for developing reading comprehension , together with 2 tools for its evaluation(questionnaire, interview).We believe that educators and learners should benefit from the outcomes of our research.Item Open Access SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A LITERATURE REVIEW(СДУ хабаршысы - 2021, 2021) S. BolatbekAbstract. Nowadays the use of technology is rapidly increasing in the educational sphere as all operations can be quickly done with the utilization of these technologies. Adults, teenagers and even children can not imagine their life without smartphones which become an inseparable part of our lives. The aim of this review is to investigate the pros and cons of the usage of mobile applications in the ELT classroom and explore all currently available applications which are connected with teaching and learning English as a foreign language. A lot of studies have been done on the utilization of applications in English classrooms by researchers. The findings show that almost all of the scientists come to the conclusion that students who learnt a language using applications showed good results compared to learners who do not use them. Nevertheless, still more studies should be done to confirm the efficiency of the utilization of smartphone applications on definite language skills and cognition.