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Item Open Access Exploring High School Students’ Understanding of and Attitudes towards Academic Misconduct in Nur-Sultan(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2020) Adekenova, UmitThis qualitative study investigated Kazakhstani high school students’ understanding of and attitudes towards academic misconduct. Six eighteen years old students from two schools in Nur-Sultan participated in semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analyzed by coding and the development of thematic categories. The study found that high school students understand the term ‘academic misconduct’ and are aware of school-based academic honesty codes. The commonly used term by the students was “cheating”. The students’ attitudes towards misconduct covered a wide spectrum: from the perception that misconduct was morally wrong, through to the view that misconduct was socially acceptable. Four out of the six participants revealed they had acted with misconduct. All students were aware of peers who had acted with misconduct. The students identified internal and external factors affecting their decisions to act with academic honesty or dishonesty. Internal factors included individual values, lack of personal organization and the school subject’s perceived importance. External factors included academic performance pressure, peers’ influence, perceived limited consequences of misconduct and the perceived attitudes of teachers. The findings suggest that teachers’ concerned attitudes and more active intervention to detect and prevent students’ misconduct may reduce misconduct among school students. The understanding of high school students’ attitudes to academic misbehavior will be beneficial for educators to reduce academic misconduct in Kazakhstani schools.Item Open Access UNDERSTANDING CHALLENGES AND STRATEGY USE OF RUSSIAN-DOMINANT KAZAKHS STUDYING IN KAZAKH-MEDIUM SCHOOLS: A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2021-05) Tenbay, SabinaAn increasing number of empirical studies have been conducted to capture the linguistic and academic difficulties that non-English speaking students often face while studying through the medium of English. However, there is still a dearth of research on students’ experiences in studying through the medium of a language other than English. Little research also exists related to the language learning strategies (LLSs) deployed by young people to manage their own limitations and affordances as they endeavor to encounter their diverse challenges.