ON THE QUESTION OF TEACHING BURYAT LANGUAGE IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Abstract

The paper deals with teaching Buryat language in modern conditions. The introduction gives a brief overview of the Buryats and their places of compact residence. In 2005, UNESCO introduced the Buryat language in the Red Book of endangered languages. Since 1992, the Buryat language has obtained the status of the state language of the Republic of Buryatia, which is enshrined in the Law on languages of the Republic of Buryatia. Unfortunately, this status never helped to avoid intensive process of its displacement from the public sphere. The monitoring identified the level of knowledge of the Buryat language in students of secondary school. The results of the monitoring show a significant decrease in speaking and writing speakers of the Buryat language. Statistical data indicate a low level of teaching Buryat language in schools of the Republic. There is a need to revise the approaches to teaching Buryat language. The development of the Buryat language in the conditions of bilingualism slows down, the number of passive bilinguals grows. The paper proposes a linguocultural approach to teaching Buryat language. This study is for teachers of the Buryat language, resource teachers, graduate students in teaching the Buryat language.