In accordance with the State Program for the Development and Functioning of Languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2011-2020, the Department for the Development of Languages of the Karaganda Region has systematically organized and conducted courses on teaching Kazakh and English. Currently, work in this direction continues within the framework of the State Program for the Implementation of the Language Policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2020-2025.
The main goal is to ensure the widespread use of the state language, the study of the state and English languages, the development of trilingualism.
The duration of the course is 3 months, from Monday to Friday, 80 minutes a day. The number of people in one group is 15.
In order to ensure consistency in the learning process, commissioned by the Office in accordance with national standards, in 2016-2019, a five-level educational and methodological complex "Saryarka 2" was developed and published. The complex consists of textbooks, workbooks, audio CDs for each level. This training manual was recognized as the best complex on the territory of the republic and the Ministry of Culture and Sports has released five thousand copies for use in all regions. In this regard, in 2019, the Office held a Republican methodological seminar on the topic: "Methods of teaching the state language: educational and methodological complex and the use of digital learning opportunities", where the Regional Center for Language Teaching shared the experience of distance learning.
In addition, due to the pandemic, training courses from March this year. transferred to distance learning. In general, the transition of training of the Office to digitalization did not create any problems, since at the request of the regional state institution, teachers widely used new technologies in the learning process, in 2018-2019, where 120 people were remotely taught the state language through the Skype program.
In general, the entire distance learning process is carried out using the following steps: to organize distance learning courses in languages in the optimal Google classroom program, courses are opened for each group and listeners are registered. Every day, teachers systematically send students written assignments, slides, audio and video materials on vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading. The grammatical minimum of a new lesson: the teacher explains through video, reinforcement is carried out in the Socrative, EasyQuizzy programs. In distance learning, the Quizlet program is used to consolidate the lexical minimum, and Padlet and IDroo boards are used for writing. To master the skills of pronunciation, students, after completing the tasks, send audio and video responses. Interim control is taken in the Socrative online program. Statistics of all online programs are saved in Excell format, the progress of the group is assessed and monitored. In the Classroom program, specialists constantly monitor the progress of systematic classes and class attendance.