[lg policy] Fwd: FW: English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan

[Harold Schiffman]

English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan

Forwarded From: Fierman, William <wfierman at indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM

English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan



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*English to be taught starting from 1st grade in Kazakhstan *****

11 March 2013 ****

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), Tengrinews.kz reports
referring to Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan
Zhumagulov. ****

“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. ****

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 and English History. ****

At present the Ministry is focusing in training enough teachers to do the
classes. ****

Earlier Tengrinews.kz reported that 165 Kazakhstan schools were running a
pilot project: they started teaching English from the second grade. ****

There are 7755 general education schools in Kazakhstan according to the
2010 report of the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan. ****

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By Gulnara Zhandagulova ****

http://en.tengrinews.kz/edu/English-to-be-taught-starting-from-1st-grade-in-Kazakhstan-17578/
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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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