<div dir="ltr"><table><tbody><tr><td class="">Astana. March 6. KazTAG -<br> Subjects must be taught in English in the secondary schools, said Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev.</td></tr><tr><td class="" value="233"></td><td class="">'We need to learn the English language since the first school year. In the 11th-12th grades all the subjects must be taught in English' he said.</td></tr><tr><td class="" value="234"></td><td class="">That's what we can see in Malaysia. When they got the independence after the war, they decided to develop the state language, but nobody knew it in the world, and again they shifted to English. The same situation was in Singapore," he added.</td></tr><tr><td class="" value="235"></td><td class="">He said, children must be taught three languages: Kazakh, Russia and English.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div>--<a href="http://www.kaztag.kz/en/news/detail.php?ID=349622">http://www.kaztag.kz/en/news/detail.php?ID=349622</a> <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<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><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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