Ahead is the 2021-2022 academic year, and schoolchildren, as well as their parents, want to know whether a second foreign language at school will be compulsory for students in grades 5-9 or students of general education institutions will reduce the load and abandon such a "bonus" in the curriculum.
FGOS standards
The study of a second foreign language at school is provided for in the current federal state educational standards (FSES). Now the situation is that in some schools a second foreign language has been introduced, in some not. Somewhere the language is taught at will, but somewhere as a compulsory subject. Nevertheless, according to the current FSES, the language is formally required.
FC 2024 in Russia should complete the transition to the latest third-generation FSES. Now their development and improvement continues. Specification and clarity are expected to be the main difference from previous standards. According to the new federal state educational standards, the second foreign language at school will no longer be compulsory - schools will be able to relax. But the project is still in development.
By enrolling a child in school, parents agree with the current local acts of the organization. If the second foreign language is really taught as a compulsory one, you will have to learn.
Pros and cons of learning a second foreign language
Many parents and schoolchildren do not understand why to study a second foreign language in the school curriculum in 2021-2022. But knowing multiple languages has a number of advantages:
- Improving competitiveness. A student who has mastered two or more foreign languages is more appreciated in the labor market.
- Brain development. Learning foreign languages has a positive effect on the general ability to think and erudition.
- Broadening your horizons. When learning a foreign language, a child interacts with a foreign culture, discovers new traditions and customs.
It seems that the more languages you learn, the cooler. But the approach also has possible downsides:
- Confusion in the head. If a qualitative base has not yet been formed for the first foreign language, the child may get confused in grammar rules, vocabulary or phonetic features.
- Excessive load. In a traditional school, the child is often overloaded with studies, and the extra hours of studying a second foreign language are not always effective. It is important to soberly assess the student's resources for mastering another language.
Parents' opinion
Can you learn French in just one lesson per week? Why do moms and dads oppose the introduction of a second foreign language in schools? And is it true that he turned into a complete profanation?
According to surveys, from 60 to 70% of parents are dissatisfied with the quality of teaching a second foreign language in schools. More than 62 percent believe that a second foreign language is not even necessary for the majority of schoolchildren.
However, now, according to the current school standards (FSES OO), in grades 5-9, the second "in-yaz" is an obligatory part of the program. The school itself determines the amount of hours, their distribution by years of study. This is usually two lessons per week. Unfortunately, the majority of school graduates remain at the “read and translate with a dictionary” level.
“The second foreign language, by and large, can be called a profanation: there are not enough teachers, hours, motivation. Often students-trainees are put on this course in schools, who themselves do not really speak the language, - said Marianna Shevchenko, Development Director of the National Parents' Association, to RG. - When the school does not have any opportunities to provide this subject at a high-quality level, where does the desire to learn from children come from? All this only adds stress and ineffective burden to children, school, and parents. "
Steps towards
Testing the knowledge of foreign languages was to become mandatory from the 2021-22 academic year according to the order of the acting the head of the same ministry (then it was called the Ministry of Education and Science) Andrei Fursenko on May 17, 2012. The very idea was associated with Dmitry Medvedev, who, being the president of the Russian Federation, saw this as one of the conditions for modernization.
But, proficiency in a foreign language will no longer be a prerequisite for obtaining a certificate of maturity in Russian schools. Such a kind of New Year's gif.webpt was given to schoolchildren by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, having issued order No. 519 back in September. With this document, which officially entered into force on the first day of the New Year, foreign languages are excluded from the list of subjects required for inclusion in the Unified State Exam (USE) …
A foreign language entered the category of subjects, where the Ministry of Education also classified literature, physics, chemistry, biology, history, social science, computer science and literature in the national languages of those regions where such languages are used in everyday life. Students can choose these subjects voluntarily - for example, in order to get the necessary points for admission to a specialized university.
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