Requirements of the syllabus to teaching foreign languages in a secondary school
The requirements are developed according to the programs and standards of the "European levels of proficiency in a foreign language," which unifies requirements for the level of training for all the languages of Europe. In this model there are 6 levels of training with a set of educational programs for each level. These levels are indicated as A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2.
These levels are harmonized with the peculiarities of the national education system in Kazakhstan and are implemented as follows:
• for the initial years of secondary school the starting training program is recommended;
• for the main stage (5-10 grades) - Levels A1, A2;
• for profile classes of 12 year school (11-12 grades.) - B1 level and profile-oriented training programs;
• for specialized schools - programs and standards of B2 level;
• for technical and vocational education institutions - the level of B1 and foundations of LSP (language foe specific purposes);
• for post-secondary vocational education - level B2 and LSP;
• for non language high schools - Level B2, and a full course of LSP (professional program);
• for language schools - levels B2, C1, C2, program LAP (language for Academic Purposes) and specialized professional program LSP.
Primary education in a foreign language (2-4 grades).
Primary foreign language education is the first step of a new 12-year school. Studying the foreign language in the elementary school is aimed at achieving the following objectives:
• ensure the development of the child's personality, his speech ability, attention, thinking, memory and imagination;
• create conditions for the early communicative and psychological adaptation of younger students to the new language and the world, in the future to overcome the psychological barriers, to use a foreign language as a means of communication;
• lay the foundations for the formation of elementary communicative competence (speech, language, socio-cultural, educational and cognitive); ability and willingness to communicate in a foreign language; basic communication skills in (speaking, listening, reading, writing;
• to introduce younger students to the world of foreign peers and literature, to bring up a friendly attitude to their foreign peers and motivate them to further mastery of a foreign language; form the initial idea of the traditions and customs of the target language;
• create some universal linguistic concepts observed in native and foreign languages, to develop speech, intellectual and cognitive abilities of younger students.
Students at the initial stage should use their knowledge and skills in practice and in everyday life: to understand the speech of the teacher, to understand the content of easy texts, participate in the elementary etiquette dialogue (friendship, congratulations, gratitude, greeting); ask questions (who, what, where, when), and answer questions of the interlocutor; briefly talk about himself, his family, a friend; give a short description of the object ; read the text aloud, observing the rules of pronunciation and basic intonation patterns; read to himself with a full understanding of educational texts, understanding the content of easy original texts; write a short greeting (Happy Birthday, Happy New Year), following the model.
The first stage of the initial foreign language education in the 12-year-old school provides the basis for the development of continuity of foreign language education.