Instructors of the IIR participated in the Russian advanced training program
From December 16 to December 29, 2020, the Russian language instructors of the Department of World Languages of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Gulyalek Chopanova, Tylla Babayeva and Altyn Hydyrova, took a two-week online special course on the advanced training program on the topic “Practical aspects of teaching Russian as a foreign language”, which brought together teachers of Turkmenistan and Armenia. The training was organized by the Expert Center “Sociology and Analytics” with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. The main participants of the program were instructors teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL).
According to the terms of the Russian training program, the instructors of the Institute within the framework of the special course successfully completed practical tasks, different types of independent works, passed the intermediate and final stages of certification and were awarded special certificates of advanced training of the established pattern.
The program, organized in a distance format, is designed to help update teaching methods in the era of global digitalization of education, increase the effectiveness of teaching and control of knowledge. Further improvement of the teaching of the Russian language, its dissemination and strengthening of positions in the field of education, according to the organizers of the special course, will have a beneficial effect on the harmonious upbringing of the younger generation and create the preconditions for more active involvement of the participating states of this initiative in the global information space.
In total, the online course lasted 72 hours and was aimed at mastering current technologies and teaching methods, new linguodidactic methods, and advanced distance learning technologies. Within the framework of the program, the students examined specialized theoretical materials and also worked on practical assignments.
It is important to note that such training courses organized for Turkmen specialists within the framework of the relevant interstate cooperation agreements harmoniously complement the large-scale work on the effective implementation of the Concepts for language teaching and digital education, adopted in our country at the initiative of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
Tatyana Dovletova,
Russian Language Instructor of the Department
of World Languages of the Institute of International
Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan