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I. EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS 
 
Topics to be discussed: 
 
1. Up-to-date requirements to FL teachers training. 
2. The technological approach. 
3. The concept of “technology” in FLT. 
4. Innovative technologies in FLT as academic subject. 
Spark: 
 
1. What do we mean by innovation? 
2. Think about innovations taken place in the educational 
system of Uzbekistan for the last period? 
 
1. Up-to-date requirements to FL teachers training 
Since the time of Independence obtained by Uzbekistan there 
have been great positive changes in the social life of the people and 
also in all branches of society. The changes in the Education system 
of Uzbekistan have been carried out according to the requirements 
of the “National program of personnel training” (1997). 
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov from 
the first days of Independence has highlighted the importance of 
deep reforms in the education system and upbringing of new 
generation in our country. 
The adoption of “The Law on Education” in Uzbekistan was a 
great event in the sphere of education, where the main principles of 
continuous and successive education were determined. 
At present Uzbekistan established diplomatic, economic, 
cultural and other relations with a great number of countries of the 
world. That is why, the role of foreign languages, especially the 
English language, as a means of communication within international 
relations has become essential. Knowledge of not only one but two 

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or more FL by modern specialists became of great demand so they 
will be able to use new technologies in their professional activity 
and to achieve the set up goals. Our society needs well-educated 
and qualified specialists with creative thinking, sense of 
responsibility, ability of solving difficult problems. 
Modernization of the education system in Uzbekistan is closely 
linked with modernization of education goal, content, technology of 
teaching and learning, and the end result through wide 
implementation of innovative technologies. 
For further development of the continuous and successive 
foreign languages learning at all levels of education and improving 
professional skills of teachers and provision of modern teaching 
materials the CEFR (Common European Framework Reference: 
teaching, learning, assessment, 1996/2001) standard has been 
offered with adapting it to the national context. 
This standard aims a common basis for the elaboration of 
language syllabuses, curricula guidelines, examinations, textbooks. 
It allows understanding what language learners have to learn to do 
in order to use a language for communication and what knowledge 
and skills they have to develop so as to be able to act effectively in 
all over the world.
On the basis of the CEFR the levels of language proficiency at 
all stages of the educational system have been defined in the State 
Educational Standard (2013:5-6). To achieve the goal and required 
levels of the language proficiency as a result of education the 
learners must acquire the new content of FLT through wide 
implementation of the innovative technologies. 
The main requirements to the FL specialists are the followings: 
the information, cultural and professional literacy. Cultural literacy 
means communicative culture on the FL as a set of personal 
communicative properties and skills characterized by conventions, 
norms and requirements for professional communication. 
Communicative 
culture 
fulfills 
the 
following 
functions:
informative, emotional, regulative, motivational and reflective. 
Information literacy is closely connected with cultural one. It 
includes the following skills: 1) to define the possible sources of 
information and strategies for its searching; 2) to analyze the 

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received information and to fix it with the help of schemes, tables, 
words, etc.; 3) to evaluate the information from the position of 
reliability, precision, sufficiency; 4) to realize needs in additional 
information and to receive that if it is possible; 5) to use the results 
of the searching process for analysis and evaluation of the 
information; 6) to create a new solution; 7) to see alternative ways 
of problem-solving; 8) to be ready to interact with colleagues, to 
take criticism, advices and offers. 
Nowadays the information literacy is often replaced with the 
term “media literacy” as ability to interact with all types of the 
media information adequately in the global information space, 
especially, to search the necessary information, to analyze and 
evaluate it critically, to create media-texts, which are extended by 
the different media means of mass information and communication 
in various forms. 
In the late years the new information and communication 
technologies have been widely implemented in the teaching process 
at all stages of education, which represent new forms, approaches 
and methods in the organization of the teaching process. That’s why 
the new kind of literacy as information-communication technologies 
(ICT competence) can be claimed. 
Professional literacy of FL teachers includes the following 
components: 1) linguistic (lexical, grammatical, and phonetic); 2) 
communicative (speaking, listening, reading, writing); 3) linguo-
cultural; 4) social-cultural; 5) subjective (informative-thematic, 
conceptual) and 6) methodological or instructional. 
Humanitarian approach has become priority in organization of 
teaching and further development of the modern education. The 
main attention here focuses on the individuals’ interests, needs and 
their intellectual potential. Under these conditions the topical matter 
for teachers is to choose the suitable and effective methods and aids 
of teaching which can provide the achievement of the purpose of the 
education.