The ministry of higher and secondary specialised education of uzbekistan

LECTURE 1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUNDS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH OTHER SCIENCES
Lecture outline:

1. 
   Introduction to the subject TFLM
   
2. 
   Methodology as a science
   

3. Links of TFLM with other sciences
4. Developing System of Teaching/Learning FL in the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Frame of Modernization of Education.


Key words: educational standards, teaching FL, methodology, methodological science, scientifically fixed observation, probative teaching, testing teaching, general methodology, special methodology, private methodology, historical methodology, modern methods, and teaching technologies.


Modern language policy in the Republic of Uzbekistan is based on:
1. The Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, December 10, 1992 (Articles 41-42)
2. LAW “On Education”, August 29, 1997
3. National Program for Training Specialists, 1997
4. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE №1875 (December 10, 2012) “About Measures due to Further Developing System of Teaching Foreign Languages”
5. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE №1971 (May 23, 2013)
About Measures due to Development of Functioning Uzbekistan State University of World Languages
6. Common European Framework of Reference: Teaching, Learning, Assessment, 2001.


Presidential Decree №1875
About Measures due to Further Developing System of Teaching Foreign Languages

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  Applying International Standards
  
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  Teaching FL since 1st FORM
  
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  Creating National Standards
  
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  Organizing National Testing Center
  
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  Raising Teachers’ Salary
  
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  Providing Modern Equipments for Foreign Language Rooms
  
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  Involving Mass Media in raising awareness of FL role nowadays
  
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  Stable Financial Support by the Ministry Of Finance of the RUz