An
opposition party in Tbilisi claims the authorities want to make
English the dominant language in Georgia.
The Labor Party on
Friday dismissed what they call a policy to make English the main
language in the small republic located in the Caucasus.
Forcing children to study a foreign language at the age of
six means they can lose their “national identity,” Secretary
General Iosif Shatberashvili said.
Several dozens of teachers from the US, Canada, Britain and New
Zealand came to Georgia on the same day to teach English in
secondary schools. They are participating in the program “Teach and
study in Georgia,” which President pc game seller pc game
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year ago. The program has attracted more than a thousand teachers,
and the authorities expect 500 more teachers by the end of the
year.
The opposition says the government “ignores
Georgian and is doing everything to make English the dominant
language.” Without knowing English graduates cannot get
their diplomas in universities, and state bodies do not hire them,
Shatberashvili told reporters.
He stressed that the authorities want to declare English
the state language. “As a puppet of Anglo-American imperialism,
Saakashvili turned the Georgian language into the primary target,”
the Labor Party leader said. He urged students and teachers
to “abandon English until the suppression of Georgian is
stopped.”
Ironically, Georgian is yet to be declared the state
language. The parliament is not in a hurry to consider a
draft law to that effect, the politician noted. The Labor
party also opposes the government’s decision to introduce the
compulsory study of English for first graders starting this
year.
Meanwhile, the authorities are continuing their policy to
“optimize” Russian-language education. There are only 40
Russian-language secondary schools left in Georgia out of 2000
schools. The majority of young people do not know Russian.
The “optimization” of the language education has also left
only 15 out of the previous 46 Russian-language sectors in
Tbilisi’s schools intact. The country’s capital will have only two
Russian-language schools.
The
education ministry has explained that the number of students
wishing to get a Russian-language education has been declining in
recent years.
http://rt.com/politics/georgia-english-teachers-opposition/
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