Teaching the Tuvan language to children of ethnic Tuvans in Mongolia
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2022.4.5Keywords:
Tuvan language; Tuvans of Mongolia; Tsengel Tuvans; Tsengel; MongoliaAbstract
The article summarizes some issues of teaching the native (Tuvan) language to children of ethnic Tuvans who mostly live in the sums of Tsengel in Bayan-Ölgii aimag, Buyant in Khovd aimag and Tsagaan-Nuur in Khövsgöl aimag. The authors rely on the data acquired during dialectological and complex expeditions conducted from 1999 to 2019, as well during business trips to these sums.
Children of ethnic Tuvans are being taught their native language in Mongolia, but this process is accompanied by a number of problems. The Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia and the sector for the education of children of small nations in schools of the National Institute for Educational Research try to create conditions for the preservation of the native (Tuvan) language of children of ethnic Tuvans in Tsengel in consultation with researchers and methodologists of Tuvan State University (TuvSU, Russia). Children have the opportunity to learn their native language from grades 1 to 9 according to programs compiled with the participation of scholars and methodologists of TuvSU. Textbooks have been written on their basis. However, as practice has shown, it is impossible to use these textbooks prepared by Tuvan authors effectively due to the lexical, grammatical and phonetic dialect features of the speech of the Tsengel Tuvans. In Tsagaan-Nuur and Khovd schools, education is carried out in the Mongolian language, so Tsagaan-Nuur children learn their mother tongue in the activity club, and children of the Khovd Tuvans do not learn it at all.
The level of Tuvan language proficiency among children and youth living in these aimags is alarming: Tuvan mainly serves as a language of communication in the family circle, and the number of children who do not speak their native language is growing each and every year.
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Kara-ool L. S. and Gansukh H. Obuchenie tuvinskomu iazyku detei etnicheskikh tuvintsev Mongolii [Teaching the Tuvan language to children of ethnic Tuvans in Mongolia]. New Research of Tuva, 2022, no. 4, pp. 65-77. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2022.4.5
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Lyubov S. Kara-ool, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Methods of Language Education and Speech Therapy, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 36 Lenina St., 667000 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (394-22) 2-19-69; +7 (901) 200-28-38.
E-mail: lkaraool61@mail.ru
Hiis Gansukh, Institute for Educational Research
Candidate of Philology, Senior Researcher, Institute for Educational Research.
Postal address: 301 Mira St., Sukhbaatar District, 8th Precinct, 11000-18520 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Tel.: +9 (769) 941-90-41.
E-mail: gansukh@mier.mn
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