SOCIOLINGUISTIC REPORT on the topic:
"Linguistic situation in the Aktobe region"
A large-scale sociolinguistic study conducted in the Aktobe region, covering Kazakhs, Russians and representatives of different ethnic groups living in the city and 12 districts, captures the language situation in 2022 and will serve as a starting point in the future, determining the dynamics of the development of languages in the region.
The language situation in the Aktobe region can be characterized as multilingual with two dominant languages (Kazakh is the state language, Russian is the language of interethnic communication). the overwhelming majority of respondents believe that all conditions have been created in the Aktobe region for the introduction of the state language.
There is real bilingualism in the Aktobe region and does not need proof.
Our research shows that there is not only mass Kazakh-Russian bilingualism, but also Russian-Kazakh bilingualism, albeit still insignificant. Now the question of the development of Russian-Kazakh bilingualism, bilingualism with the component "English" and ethnic-Kazakh bilingualism becomes relevant. Every year the number of people studying Kazakh, Russian and English is increasing.
Appropriate conditions have been created to facilitate the study of the state and other languages. In the Aktobe region, the number of institutions providing training and education in the state language is increasing every day. The population of the region supports the ongoing language policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to the overwhelming majority of residents of the Aktobe region, the state language dominates in Kazakhstan. A significant proportion (91.1%) of residents believe that conditions have been created in the Aktobe region for proficiency in the state language.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE IN KAZAKH, RUSSIAN ENGLISH, NATIVE LANGUAGES OF RESIDENTS OF AKTOBE REGION Residents of the region indicated as their native language: Kazakh language - 88.7% of respondents; Russian language - 8.3% of respondents; Ukrainian language -2.1% of respondents; Tatar language - 1.7% of respondents; Korean - 0.1% of respondents and German - 0.2% of respondents. In 2022, the share of the adult population who speaks the state language was 95.1%. In 2021, the share of the adult population who speaks the state language was 94.4%. Freely speak, read and write in the state language 59.7% of the inhabitants of the region.
The share of those who speak the state language of non-Kazakh nationality is 52.3%.
The share of residents of the region who speak Russian was 94.7%, and in 2021 it was 93.8%.
The proportion of residents of the region who speak English is 28.1%.
The proportion of residents of the region who speak three languages (state, Russian and English) was 20.1%. Slightly more than half of the surveyed residents of the Aktobe region do not have language problems, so they can conduct office work in the state language and have no problems communicating in the Kazakh language. Among the problems faced by the population of the Aktobe region are: it serves as an obstacle to the introduction of office work in the state language (14.8%), leads to isolation from the Kazakh-speaking society (13.6%), a feeling of inferiority due to ignorance of the state language (9, 4%), restricts access to information (newspapers, books, magazines, Internet, TV, etc. (8.8%) hinders getting a job in the civil service (1.2%), promotion due to ignorance of the state language (0.2%).
SPHERES OF APPLICATION OF KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, NATIVE LANGUAGES The scope of the Kazakh language: in office work - 81.6%, at work - 69.5%, public places: shops, markets, places of public service - 77.4%, educational institutions - 70.9%, in communication with the family - 70.5%, communicating with friends, acquaintances - 63.2%, - reading newspapers and magazines - 75.5%, watching television 74.4%, reading professional literature - 67.6%, listening to radio programs 66.7%, in transport - 69.2%, in commercial banks - 66.0%, on the Internet - 54.2%, hobbies - 70.6%. In 2022, the degree of demand for the state language in the main areas of public activity amounted to -80.4% of the entire sample of the adult population. MOTIVES FOR STUDYING KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND ETHNIC LANGUAGES The main motives of the residents of the Aktobe region in learning the state language are:
1) help to make a successful political career (62.0% and 28.2%);
2) help to get a well-paid job (64.3% and 28.8%);
3) to have good relations with colleagues, neighbors, etc. (48.3% and 37.2%);
4) to comprehend the culture of my country (48.7% and 37.0%);
5) I live in Kazakhstan and will live here (54.6% and 29.8%);
6) it is my native language and it is necessary to know it (44.4% and 40.7%) and
7) it is necessary to receive a quality education (50.0% and 37.5%). The predominant majority of the region's residents understand and consider it necessary to study Kazakh (82.5%), Russian (75.6%), the language of their ethnic group (72.4%) and English (69.8%) for them and their children. Residents of the Aktobe region understand that they know Kazakh, Russian and English