Abstract
In 2012 the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan has developed State Educational Standards for primary education and curriculum for teaching English to grades 1-4 and the age for English language learning (ELL) has been lowered to 6-7 years of age. This research aims to investigate the extent to which teachers are ready in their teaching in primary schools, how it should be conducted with young learners (YL), and finally what problems of implementation and organization of English Language Teaching (ELT) in primary schools in Kazakhstan language teachers faced with. The data for the study is gathered from 105 English teachers working in different primary schools. The study revealed that along with the positive experience some schools and teachers have had in teaching English languages to young learners (ELYL) from the 1st grade, most of them have not yet made a transition to the system organization of teaching foreign languages in the primary school.
Highlights
The new social and economic conditions of development of the Kazakh society, the processes of economic globalization, integration in various spheres of life require learning a foreign language as a means of cross-cultural, business and personal communication.Kazakhstan aims becoming a society knowledgeable in all spheres of life
This research aims to investigate the extent to which teachers are ready in their teaching in primary schools, how it should be conducted with young learners (YL), and what problems of implementation and organization of English Language Teaching (ELT) in primary schools in Kazakhstan language teachers faced with
Despite the improvement compared to the year 2011, today about half of all foreign language teachers working in primary schools are not able to take advanced training courses timely, which has a general negative impact on the level of teaching the foreign language to young learners
Summary
The new social and economic conditions of development of the Kazakh society, the processes of economic globalization, integration in various spheres of life require learning a foreign language as a means of cross-cultural, business and personal communication. Kazakhstan aims becoming a society knowledgeable in all spheres of life. The importance of knowing a foreign language as a tool for access to sources of information is unquestionable. Computer science, economics, law and foreign languages are considered to be the high-priority fields of modern education in Kazakhstan. A foreign language, English in particular, is a leading discipline today, as in the conditions of active development of the international communication the value of a school or college graduate in the labor market is highly determined by his/her level of the foreign language proficiency
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