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This article discusses the project on capacity building for training of engineering and technical specialists via STEAM technologies at the Saginov Karaganda Technical University (STU) in Kazakhstan. The project, entitled “Capacity building of engineers innovative training via STEAM education” was supported by the fund under the "Research in the field of education and science for 2021-2023” priority of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP092600338). The current research presented in this article addresses the issues of assessing the level of professional communication and collaboration skills among teaching staff. The article describes the identified communication gaps and recommendations in three areas of training, presents the key statements of the theory of communication and collaboration formulated on the basis of the results obtained within the integrated educational STEAM space, structured as the core of the STEAM education framework. Additionally, a list of competencies according to advanced STEAM approaches have been developed.

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This article discusses the implementation of the "Information and Communication Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning" course conducted as a component of the pre-service English language teacher training program in the Buketov Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan. The course was introduced in 2003. The central objective of the course is to develop pre-service language teachers' capacity to effectively integrate technology in language teaching and learning in their own classrooms. In this article, the authors briefly discuss the history of computer-assisted language teaching and learning, and describe their course, as well as preliminary results from their evaluation of the implementation of the course over the last three years. Their experience from the course implementation suggests that trainee teachers not only developed some useful skills to use technology with their own students, but also developed an understanding that information technology is a necessary tool in contemporary second-language education.

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