Download - Российский комитет Программы ЮНЕСКО ...

citizens. That said, we also need to create favourable conditions for members of
the country’s other ethnic groups to speak and receive schooling in their native
languages.”
This principle became the foundation for the National Programme of Language
Use and Promotion, intended for the 2011-2020 period. The programme was
elaborated in keeping with Articles 7 and 93 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan,
the July 11, 1997 Law on Languages, the Doctrine of National Unity, and the
Language Policy Framework.
Work on the Programme will proceed in three areas:
• broadening and enhancing the socio-communicative role of the
national language;
• maintaining the role of the Russian language in the cultural domain;
• promoting other languages of Kazakhstan.
There are three stages to cover:
• Stage 1: Taking steps to improve the regulatory and methodological
base for language use and promotion (2011-13);
• Stage 2: Implementing practical measures to introduce new technology
and methodology in the area of language study and use, as well as in
linguistic diversity preservation (2014-2016);
226
• Stage 3: Consolidating the results through systemic monitoring of
national language use in every area of social life, as well as of its standard
usage and proficiency level, with the positions of Kazakhstan’s other
languages maintained (2017–2020).
At President Nazarbayev’s initiative, a national cultural project, ”Language
Triad”, has also been launched. Every person living in modern-day Kazakhstan
is well aware that the command of at least three languages – Kazakh, Russian
and English – is crucial to his or her success. In our increasingly globalized
world, speaking several languages is an indispensable asset because we all need
to know how to orient ourselves in a multilingual environment.
Objectives:
• qualitative (an improved linguistic environment, more self-motivation
to learn the Kazakh language among the country’s non-Kazakh ethnic
groups; wider research activities for Kazakh and other languages
spoken in Kazakhstan);