The Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Education of Russia published 100,000 new textbooks on the Russian language in Tashkent.
This initiative was implemented within the framework of the Class! Project.
Second-graders of Uzbek-medium schools will study these books in the new academic year. In total, it is planned to issue around 600 thousand copies. The textbooks have been developed in line with the new educational program of the Russian as a foreign language. A joint team of leading Russian and Uzbek authors led by Elizaveta Khamraeva, director of the A.I. Herzen Interuniversity Center for Bilingual and Multicultural Education of the Russian State Pedagogical University.
As part of the project, starting from September, the new textbooks will be experimentally used for pupils of the grades 3-7, and starting from the new year - for grades 8-11.
Russian language teachers earlier conducted a large-scale linguistic audit in Uzbekistan: in 2020 and in the first half of 2021, about 13 thousand Uzbek teachers and schoolchildren passed testing for the Russian language proficiency as a foreign language, as well as degree of pedagogical competencies (for teachers). Russian teachers worked in 70 schools across the country.
In September 2021, it is planned to send another 100 specialists to the country: 80 teachers and 20 methodologists.
