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26 at the Government meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Bakytzhan
Sagintayev, Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev and Vice
Minister of Culture and Sports Aktoty Raimkulova reported on the
implementation of the State Program for the Development and Functioning
of Languages for 2011–2019.</p>
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<p>As Raimkulova noted, the
country’s language policy is carried out in accordance with the law “On
Languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan” and the State Program for the
Functioning and Development of Languages for 2011–2019.</p>
<p>In order to fulfill the instructions sounded in the Head of State’s
article “Looking into the Future: Modernizing Public Consciousness,” the
state program was supplemented with tasks to clarify the phased
transition of the Kazakh language to the Latin script, improve spelling,
and ensure accessibility to the public. The program provides for the
achievement of 9 indicators and 12 effective factors.</p>
<p>To date, a number of activities have been implemented under the State
Program. In the country, active training of civil servants in three
languages is organized. In accordance with the Agreement of
Understanding between the Academy of Public Administration under the
President of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Education and Science, 558
people took language courses from central executive bodies in 2018 (in
2017 — 610 people). In order to preserve the linguistic capital of
Kazakhstan in 2018, the state provided support for the study of the
native language of 26 ethnic groups (in 2017 — 225).</p>
<p>In total, the country has one state and 88 regional national centers
for language studies. Training centers organize language courses in
accordance with the law "On Language." More than 42 thousand people
studied in the training centers in the first half of 2018. In 7 months
of 2018, 52,245 people including 20,057 civil servants assessed their
knowledge of the Kazakh language through the KazTest system.</p>
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<p>“According to the results of 9 months 2018, the share of total
document circulation in the state language was 93%. Of these, 91% are in
central executive bodies, 95% are in local executive bodies and 46% are
in national companies,” reported Raimkulova.</p>
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<p>In order to expand the scope of the state language use in the
country, the following sites operate: Tilalemi.kz portal, Atau.kz
onomastic base, Emle.kz orthographic base, Termincom.kz base,
Tilmedia.kz trilingual website, Balatili.kz children's website and
Qujat.kz website, where you can find Kazakh-language examples of
documents from all industries and examples of their correct filling.</p>
<p>Also, according to Raimkulova, the Ministry of Culture and Sports
conducted a monitoring of the terms approved today. Of the 21 thousand
approved terms, 40.8% are own, 59.2% are borrowed and mixed.</p>
<p>In order to preserve the purity of the Kazakh language and translate
it into a scientific language, work began on determining the terminology
principles and the main tasks of applied terminology. Under the
Government of Kazakhstan, the Republican Terminology Commission that
approves the terms was established.</p>
<p>Raimkulova noted that the Kazakh versions of a number of terms that
came from foreign languages were revised, this work will continue. In
addition, work is underway on onomastics. In the first half of 2018, 726
proposals of central and local executive bodies were considered, and
positive conclusions were given on a number of proposals.</p>
<p>In turn, the Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev
reported on the ongoing work on the indicator "The Proportion of School
Graduates who have Mastered the State Language at B1 Level." Thus, the
Program provides for an increase in the share of school graduates who
have mastered the state language at the B1 level in 2018 to 90%.</p>
<p>In accordance with a special order of the Ministry of Education and
Science, 11th grade students must pass a written exam in their native
language and literature when passing state final examinations. In
schools where instruction takes place in Russian, Uzbek, Uygur, and
Tajik, testing for knowledge of the Kazakh language takes place. It
should be noted that the grade “4” in the Kazakh language corresponds to
the B1 level of mastering the language, and “5” — to the level of
mastering the language at B2.</p>
<p>In 2018, more than 45 thousand graduates received grades "4" and "5" —
which is 90%. Thus, according to the information of the Ministry of
Education and Science, the indicator has been fulfilled.</p>
<p>Also, Sagadiyev reported on training the future teachers of the
Kazakh language as part of the state educational order. In the 2018/19
academic year in the specialty "Kazakh Language and Literature," the
state order was issued for 596 places, including 405 for bachelor's
degree, 180 for master's degree, and two doctoral studies.</p>
<p>In addition, to date, work is underway to introduce the standard
practice of continuous education of the state language in the
Kindergarten – School – College system.</p>
<p>Also during the meeting, akims of the Atyrau region N. Nogayev,
Pavlodar — B. Bakauov, West Kazakhstan region — A. Kulginov, Deputy Akim
of the Mangystau region Sh. Ilmukhanbetov, and Deputy Akim Almaty city
A. Madiyev.</p>
<p>Summing up the consideration of the issue, the Prime Minister noted
that in general the number of training centers depends on demand. Thus,
if the local executive bodies allocate social benefits for training,
then entrepreneurs will be interested, there will be more training
centers. Moreover, it was indicated that the main goal of the Program is
to increase the number of people who speak the state language.</p>
<p>According to the ministers, the implementation of the State Program
for the Development and Functioning of Languages is carried out within
the framework of the planned activities. Given that the state program’s
activities will soon be completed, the Ministry of Culture and Sports,
together with interested government agencies, has been tasked with
working out the issue of developing a draft State Program for the
Development of Languages for 2020–2024.</p>
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