The transition of the Kazakh language to Latin graphics is an important stage in the development of our state. Today in the modern world Latin is associated with new technologies and scientific and technological progress. In the era of the world globalization, the transition to the Latin alphabet will help Kazakhstan successfully integrate into the world scientific and economic space, while maintaining its identity.
Within the framework of the program “Rouhani Zhangyru” (program “Transition of the state language to the Latin alphabet”) teachers of the Foreign Languages Department of the Philological Faculty Musabayeva G.M., Zhanayeva J.A. and Zhandildinova A.M. held a competition on the knowledge of the Latin alphabet with the 1st year students of the Faculty of Information Technology.
The purpose of this event was to maintain and strengthen the knowledge of students in the new alphabet of the Kazakh language. The competition consisted of three rounds. A certain assignment was prepared for each tour, and each tour was evaluated according to the complexity of the assignment.
According to our linguists, the modernized Latin model without unnecessary elements will be easily written and read because there has been used a standard English-language keyboard. Therefore three rounds between three teams were held to identify literacy in the spelling. The first tour was “Finding mistakes”. Students looked for errors in spelling words in the text given to them in the Kazakh language in the Latin alphabet.
In the second round, 1 participant from each team went to the blackboard and within 2 minutes had to write 5 words given in Kazakh in Latin letters. And in the last round there were rebuses. Each team received 5 samples of rebuses, which they had to solve and write an answer in Kazakh in Latin letters.
During the event, the 1st year students actively participated in the competition, improved their knowledge in the Kazakh language and the new Latin alphabet, they showed their intelligence, as well as the competitive and team spirit.
Kalikhaidarova G.E., senior teacher, English Department, Philological Faculty
