1. S.D.Asfendiyarov Kazakh National medical university
The specific features of teaching Russian language in the context of trilingual education at higher education institutions in Kazakhstan
Senior lecturer of S.D.Asfendiyarov KazNMU chair of Russian language and professional Russian language with a course of Latin language
BOTATAYEVA U.A.

2. The idea of trilingual education was introduced in the State program for the functioning and developing languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan for years..

3. The official status of the Russian language in Kazakhstan is defined as follows: "in State institutions and local self-administrative bodies the Russian language is officially used with the Kazakh language" (Constitution, art. 7; 1995, Language law, art. 5).

4. The value of the Russian language in our Republic remains important -it is widely used in manufacturing, the economy, science and technology, in the field of new technologies, as well as a working language of the United Nations and the actual language of the CIS.

5. In 2012 the number of schools with Russian medium of instruction in Kazakhstan was 19%, in 2014-18%.
Starting from 2013 a subject "Kazakh literature” is taught in Kazakh in schools with Russian medium of instruction;
Starting from 2014 teaching “History" and “Geography of Kazakhstan» are conducted in Kazakh .

6. From the academic year teaching in three languages — English, Kazakh and Russian — is conducted across 32 universities of Kazakhstan on the specializations related to pedagogy and STEM subjects
Polylingual education program enrolled more than 5.5 thousand students.

7. Almost every Kazakhstani university has the departments with Russian language of teaching, 25% of grants from the State budget were allocated for these departments in 2015
In ,6% ( grants out of ).

8. Russian language in Kazakhstan is the compulsory part of the unified State educational standard. Its functioning is carried out in two different sectors due to the objectives, scope and structure : 1) Russian language as a language of teaching at the educational institutions of all types and levels: at schools with Russian language of teaching, at "Russian" departments of colleges, universities, at masterships, doctorates;
2) Russian language as a subject of study at the educational institutions of all types : as a second (non-native) language for schools with non-Russian language of teaching; for Kazakh departments of colleges, universities, etc.; as a foreign language for citizens of foreign countries.

9. In 2011 the disciplines «Professional Kazakh (Russian) language» were introduced into the standard undergraduate curricula.

10. The advantages of using the Russian language
  in higher education in Kazakhstan are the followings:
- the availability of the conceptual scope of the specific subject area;
the lack of difficulty in listening and the perception of scientific speech by ear;
opportunity to appeal to the established ideas based on the native / second language, which is one of the motivating factors for learning Russian;
- a high level of proficiency in Russian, which is a characteristic for the Kazakh students (both in Russian and Kazakh university departments) allows to use specific methods of teaching the theoretical cycle disciplines.

11. Students number, total number Among them trained
Region
Students number, total number
Among them trained
In the Kazakh language
In the Russian language
Kazakhstan
Akmola
13 787
5 206
8 581
Aktobe
23 821
16 610
7 211
Almaty
10 701
6 672
2 288
Atyrau
11 347
8 104
3 243
West Kazakhstan Region
25 517
16 377
9 140
Zhambyl
26 805
22 593
4 212
Karaganda
46 449
19 541
26 544
Kostanai
22 349
4 535
17 659
Kyzylorda
13 772
13 330
442
Mangystau
5 739
4 222
1 517
South Kazakhstan Region
74 564
62 794
11 395
Pavlodar
15 257
4 419
10 838
North Kazakhstan Region
5 846
1 148
4 698
East Kazakhstan Region
29 220
15 364
13 684
Astana city
53 561
25 637
25 925
Almaty city
78 525
64 038

12. In the English language
Region
Students total number
Among them trained
In the English language
In the German language
Other languages
Kazakhstan
10 679 39 16
Akmola
13 787
Aktobe
23 821
Almaty
10 701
1 725
Atyrau
11 347
West Kazakhstan Region
25 517
Zhamby
26 805
Karaganda
46 449
364
Kostanai
22 349
155
Kyzylordа
13 772
Mangystau
5 739
South Kazakhstan Region
74 564
375
Pavlodar
15 257
North Kazakhstan Region
5 846
East Kazakhstan Region
29 220
172
City of Astana
53 561
1 999
City of Almaty
5 889

13. The proportion of students enrolled in the state language, %
Region
Students total number
The proportion of students enrolled in the state language, %
Kazakhstan
57, 87
Akmola
13 787
37, 76
Aktobe
23 821
69, 73
Almaty
10 701
62, 35
Atyrau
11 347
71, 42
West Kazakhstan Region
25 517
64, 18
Zhambyl
26 805
84, 29
Karaganda
46 449
42, 07
Kostanai
22 349
20, 29
Kyzylorda
13 772
96, 79
Mangystau
5 739
73, 57
South Kazakhstan Region
74 564
84, 21
Pavlodar
15 257
28, 96
North Kazakhstan Region
5 846
19, 64
East Kazakhstan Region
29 220
52, 58
City of Astana
53 561
47, 87
City of Almaty
52, 88

14. Today there is no standard for teaching Russian language in a similar European way.
The lack of
Standards of teaching three languages does not allow to have a single regulatory - control and informative base as well as an unified control and evaluation mechanism of multilingual education.

15. Russian Language training
in Kazakhstan universities should be based on the principle of equation of the state (Kazakh) and official (Russian) languages in the educational content.

16. The specific character of training Russian in the higher schools of Kazakhstan causes necessity to develop
the Language standard on the basis of the comparative level models of training, as well as retraining the new up-to-date pedagogical staff

17. THANK YOU FOR THE
ATTENTION!