D Mamanova

Kazakhstan, Almaty

Multilingual Education in Kazakhstan as the Innovation process

Nowadays contemporary Kazakstan’s society is social modernization and desire to global integration processes, where the leading position in the process is an innovative education. It is known the society develops successfully and harmoniously enter to the line of leading countries of the world, which will be able to create worthy conditions to get high- quality and modern education for citizens.

The leader of the State N.A.Nazarbaev has determined quite high objectives for national education. The Education must be a competitive, high- quality, thus, Graduations of Kazakhstan’s school will easily continue their studies at foreign high schools.

The introduction of teaching three languages in educational process of secondary schools –it is certainly an important step towards to realization the Conceptions of development of education system of Kazakhstan until 2015, one of the basic conception is learning three languages, Eurasian multiculturalism and communication. The main aspects of conception about graduations who should know foreign languages, it is essential aspect. It is vital necessary because intensive pace and level of development of science and technology all over the world require knowledge of foreign languages fluently for more quality and getting all approaches such as theoretical and practical units, skills and abilities. These regulations have been implementing at schools, where the teaching is conducted in Kazakh, Russian, English languages. It promotes to improve communicative skills. In additions, the teaching in three languages and as result of using practically. It will promote to accustom to the culture and customs of various countries. In addition, this is nothing more than creating multilingual person.  Multilingual Education is focus on organized, up brining and development of the individual as multilingual person, at the same time it based on mastering of several languages as “fragment” social meaning of experiences of human, then it embodies in lingual knowledge and skills, lingual and speech activities, as well as emotionally – value of relationship towards language and it’s culture.

Multilingual person is active person who mastering several languages, representing the following stages:

-                     The identify of speech- the complex of psycho-physiological  properties that allow  the individual to exercise speech in several language simultaneously;

-                     The identify of the communicative abilities- it is aggregate of abilities of verbal behavior and use several languages as means of communication with the representatives different linguists. 

About 70 per cent of population of all over the world possess two and more languages and this is the most peculiar to the regions in the territory inhabited by people of different nationalities. In Kazakhstan where the native language is Kazakh and the official language is Russian, also it characteristic of multilingualism. The Statistics show that it terms of the number bilingual even multilingual in Kazakhstan outstrip other countries in Commonwealth of Independent States.

Our Republic is multi- ethnical country, in where there are more 130 nationalities live peacefully. It could not respond to a new direction of pedagogical thought. The new conceptions of education were developed with conceptions of ethno cultural educations that provide details of a multicultural personality on the 90 of the last century. According to this concept, “the multicultural person is individual with various linguistic consciousness’s”. Knowledge of native language and state language, learning foreign language widen students’ outlook, contribute it’s polyhedral development, form on tolerance and form view of the world. This definition gives us an idea of what should be a new generation.

Therefore, teachers of foreign languages  of multilingual education is not understood only introduction with the culture of English – speaking countries, but also an introduction to the features of life Kazakhs, spiritual inheritance of Kazakhstan and its contribution to world culture.

References

1. The Conception of Development of education of Kazakhstan til 2015. Astanà 2004

2. About conception of ethno cultural education in Republic of Kazakhstan, 1996