K. Smakova2023-06-072023-06-072016FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AS A SCIENCE: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES. K. Smakova. Вестник СДУ - 20162415-8135https://repository.sdu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/498The factors that influence foreign language education are various. However, they can be summarized as conceptions. How a teacher and educational community of stakeholders view the job of a foreign language teacher or teacher-training will definitely have a significant impact on the quality of the processes that foreign language education involves. One of the conceptions of foreign language education views it as a branch of a scientific discipline. This paper focuses on the science-research conceptions of ‘Foreign Language Education’ and attempts to describe connections between the science of foreign language education and the related social and humanitarian sciences of interdisciplinary character.Conceptionsscientific disciplineforeign languageeducationapplied linguisticsВестник СДУ/ СДУ хабаршысыArticle