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"Armenia needs the Russian language": question mark or accent?
16:12 | October 18,2014 | Social
"Moscow home" with the support of YerevanMunicipality organized a
contest of Russian language teachers. Participating teachers were
elected in their own schools. By the way, schools with advanced
courses of Russian were selected. Teachers must write a composition
titled "Armenia needs the Russian language". They must decide to put a
question mark or accent.
Everything would be fine if it didn't turn out that many teachers were
unaware why they had come there, "We were just told to come here to
take part in the contest, nothing more", "let them say us the topic
and we will write and send, we all know writing, do they want to
check?", "It is offending for a teacher",- said the teachers, who
didn't introduce themselves being afraid of losing their jobs.
But after expressing their anger, the teachers took part in the
contest and wrote the compositions.
Before that, we spoke to the teachers about knowledge of the Russian
language among Armenian young people. Teachers note that when they
were young, everybody knew Russian, but even today pupils learn the
language not bad, "In the past it was different, we went abroad very
often and all learnt Russian. But today children didn't go abroad and
even if they go, they need English more,"- in the conversation with
A1+ said number 77 school teacher Anna Harutyunyan and added that
there is also another problem: today children don't like reading
neither Armenian nor Russian, "We try to awake the love toward
language, literature and reading. We want them to realize that if they
want to achieve something they also need Russian. Our present
political situation hints that we will need Russian very much,"- she
added.
About 15 years ago the situation was worse, says number 150 school
teacher Svetlana Melikyan. Now the knowledge of Russian has improved a
little, but there is still the tendency, pupils are very weak,
"Because there is no contact, they don't listen to Russian on TV, they
don't read. Besides today pupils don't even speak literate Armenian,
let alone speak Russian."
By the way, the compositions will be checked by Russian language
specialists of the YSU. The results will be summed up on October 23.
First three places will get valuable prizes.
http://en.a1plus.am/1198449.html
From: A. Papazian
16:12 | October 18,2014 | Social
"Moscow home" with the support of YerevanMunicipality organized a
contest of Russian language teachers. Participating teachers were
elected in their own schools. By the way, schools with advanced
courses of Russian were selected. Teachers must write a composition
titled "Armenia needs the Russian language". They must decide to put a
question mark or accent.
Everything would be fine if it didn't turn out that many teachers were
unaware why they had come there, "We were just told to come here to
take part in the contest, nothing more", "let them say us the topic
and we will write and send, we all know writing, do they want to
check?", "It is offending for a teacher",- said the teachers, who
didn't introduce themselves being afraid of losing their jobs.
But after expressing their anger, the teachers took part in the
contest and wrote the compositions.
Before that, we spoke to the teachers about knowledge of the Russian
language among Armenian young people. Teachers note that when they
were young, everybody knew Russian, but even today pupils learn the
language not bad, "In the past it was different, we went abroad very
often and all learnt Russian. But today children didn't go abroad and
even if they go, they need English more,"- in the conversation with
A1+ said number 77 school teacher Anna Harutyunyan and added that
there is also another problem: today children don't like reading
neither Armenian nor Russian, "We try to awake the love toward
language, literature and reading. We want them to realize that if they
want to achieve something they also need Russian. Our present
political situation hints that we will need Russian very much,"- she
added.
About 15 years ago the situation was worse, says number 150 school
teacher Svetlana Melikyan. Now the knowledge of Russian has improved a
little, but there is still the tendency, pupils are very weak,
"Because there is no contact, they don't listen to Russian on TV, they
don't read. Besides today pupils don't even speak literate Armenian,
let alone speak Russian."
By the way, the compositions will be checked by Russian language
specialists of the YSU. The results will be summed up on October 23.
First three places will get valuable prizes.
http://en.a1plus.am/1198449.html
From: A. Papazian