<div dir="ltr">English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fierman, William</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wfierman@indiana.edu">wfierman@indiana.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM<br><br>English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan<br><br><br><br>





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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-size:26pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif";color:rgb(73,76,73)">11 March 2013
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">Children will be learning English starting from the first grade in all Kazakhstan schools. The novelty will be introduced country-wide starting from the new
 academic year (September 1, 2013), </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif";color:rgb(0,0,237)">Tengrinews.kz
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">“367 000 children will go to the first grade this September in Kazakhstan. All of them will start learning English. The English Language will become part of
 the curriculum starting from the first grade. It is the polylingualism our President was talking about,” the Minister of Education and Science said at the meeting with heads of foreign music universities in Astana.
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">Some of the schools are even planning to teach several subjects in English besides the English Language subject. These could be the subjects like English Literature
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">At present the Ministry is focusing in training enough teachers to do the classes.
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">Earlier
</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif";color:rgb(0,0,237)">Tengrinews.kz
</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">reported that 165 Kazakhstan schools were running a pilot project: they started teaching English from the second grade.
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">There are 7755 general education schools in Kazakhstan according to the 2010 report of the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan.
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<p style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif"">By Gulnara Zhandagulova
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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